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Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney cows got their names from three lush islands strung along the west coast of the Normandy peninsula, at the end of which lies Cherbourg Harbor. All within 30 miles of France, the Channel Islands nevertheless belonged to Great Britain (each with a proud little provincial Government of its own). When the Germans extended their grip down Europe's west coast to the Spanish border, the English Channel became No Man's Land. But not until last week did 95,000 Channel Islanders recognize that fact and, on orders from London, begin to move...
...avoid waiting six days for a passenger boat to take him from Guernsey to Alderney (English Channel islands 20 miles apart), a Major L. Palmer mailed himself as a parcel. A buttonhole label announced he was "OHMS"* and paid...
Neither were camera men flayed on behalf of Elizabeth, Duchess of York or her daughter "Baby Betty," for whom the Duke of York last week bought a new Alderney cow. Just now Duchess and Babe are the two most flatteringly snap-shotted Royalties in England...
Within 60 days the corporation must dispose of all its voting stocks in Abbots-Alderney Dairies, Inc., James Butler Grocery Co., Economy Stores Corp., Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Inc., National Dairy Products Corp., Reid Ice Cream Corp., U. S. Stores Corp. It may keep its shares in Tellings-Belle Vernon (dairy products), Cleveland; H. C. Bohack Co. (chain stores), Brooklyn; First National Stores, New England; Detroit Creamery Co.; David Pender Grocery Co., Virginia; U. S. Dairy Products Corp. of Philadelphia; and non-voting stock in U. S. Stores Corp. and James Butler Grocery...
...Bohack Co. (300 stores, chiefly in Brooklyn); James Butler Inc.; Borden Milk Co.; U. S. Stores Corporation (1,050 grocery and meat stores in 12 states); David Pender Grocery Co. (Virginia); First National Stores, Inc. (Boston); U. S. Dairy Products Corporation; Reid Ice Cream Corporation; Abbotts-Alderney Dairies, Inc. (Philadelphia); Detroit Creamery Co. Packing plants and bakeries will be added to this list...