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...elderly and sweetly commanding lady appeared, last week in the Zoological Gardens at Bristol, where a Conservative party picnic was being held. When reporters crowded round, the lady pinked with amiability. "I was wondering as I entered the Zoo," she said, "in what category I really belong. I am too old to play with the monkeys or quack with the ducks. I do not want to be enrolled among the geese, and still less among the boars. I wonder where I belong...
Doubts were resolved, wonder ceased when the wires flashed word from Wales that Pilot Wilmer Stultz had guided the Friendship safely to a landing in the Burry inlet on the north side of the Bristol channel. Observed "Lady Lindy," casually: "We are short of gasoline." She was right. The plane had used the last gallon of fuel...
Artillery roared one day last week around the mud-banks that embrace Kowloon Bay, in answer to a saluting salvo from the U. S. S. Pittsburgh, steaming in. It was Diplomat-Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, commander of U. S. naval forces in the Far East, arriving to pay Hongkong the first visit of his current assignment. After a week in British Hongkong, he meant to proceed 100 miles up the Canton River to Canton to investigate the South China "situation." At the proper moment, Hongkong's Governor, Sir Cecil Clementi, entertained Admiral Bristol & aides with a state dinner. Admiral...
...late famed Lord Northcliffe, heads the new group. He announced, last week, that it will exploit the news service of his Daily Mail and the picture service of his Daily Mirror by enlarging both to serve a to-be-founded chain of afternoon papers in Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle, Glasgow. Thus Lord Rothermere proclaims that he will enter cutthroat competition with the numerous afternoon newspapers already owned in the provinces by the famed Berry brothers (TIME...
...most important development in our business of recent years was the opening this fall of cheese factories in the South. We now have eight factories in operation there and have five more under construction. These factories will be scattered across the South from Bristol, Va., through Tennessee, Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, to Wichita Falls...