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William Lever was the seventh child but first son of a Bolton wholesale grocer. He soon tired of gigging about the countryside selling groceries, decided to go into soap. Unlike Harley Procter who had a soap before he had a name,* William Lever had a registered name (Sunlight) before he had the soap. By 1888 he was breaking ground for Port Sunlight, the first of his countless adventures in "enlightened self-interest." The biggest was his Congo adventure into which, in his restless search for raw materials, he plunged in 1910. He acquired from Belgium millions of acres of palm...
Singles: Fuld (H) defeated Gordon 6-3, 8-6; Dorson (H) defeated Armstrong 6-4, 6-1; Wight (M) defeated William Minot, Jr. 6-3, 6-0, 6-3; Bolton (M) defeated Lawrence Ross 6-4, 3-6, 6-3; Anderson Page (H) defeated Fiske 75, 6-3; Elwood Henneman (H) defeated Masters...
Doubles: Gordon and Wight (M) defeated Fuld and Dorson 4-6, 6-1, 6-0; Robert C. Holecombo and Thomas Sherwin (H) defeated Bolton and Marstons 6-2, 6-1; Page and Pell (H) defeated Fuller and Armstrong...
...Senators tacked on amendments, one to allow Pacific Coast shipyards to bid on the new ships with transportation costs considered, the other to build 25% of the airplanes in government plants. Great Britain- The biggest Navy budget since 1928 was presented to the House of Commons by Sir Bolton Meredith Eyres Monsell. First Lord of the Admiralty. Cost: ?56,550.000 ($287,274,000), or $15,158,400 more than last year. New ships: four cruisers, one aircraft carrier, nine destroyers, three submarines, many a small craft. France- The Doumergue Government pushed construction on a man o' war, two submarines...
...policy of building cruisers of comparatively small tonnage was adopted by His Majesty's Government," said Sir Bolton, "in the hope that other nations would follow our lead." However, the U. S. and Japan continue to build large cruisers.* Therefore Britain, which had intended to build three small Arethusa-type cruisers (5,450 tons, 6 in. guns) and one Leander-type (7,000 tons, 6 in. guns) next year, will now build a single midget Arethusa and two whopping cruisers of 9,000 tons each, equipped with guns whose size Sir Bolton did not reveal...