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...cream machine is no novelty in England where nearly a quarter of a million housewives use it. Invented by a Briton named Major A. R. Bannister, it arrived in the U. S. by way of Canada where it was snapped up by small energetic Club Aluminum Utensil Co. of Chicago. A similar machine is manufactured by National Die Casting Co. to sell at Macy's for $3.94. In boom times Club Aluminum, a kitchen utensil company organized ten years ago by a hillbilly preacher named Burnett, sold $35,000,000 worth of heavy-cast aluminum utensils to nearly...
...Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory works a young Briton of Swiss extraction who is indisputably one of the few great mathematical logicians in the world. His Principles oj Quantum Mechanics is a monument of human cerebration. That book is utterly incomprehensible to ordinary men who had never heard of its author until Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac won a Nobel Prize last year. Only a few of the ablest scholar-scientists can follow the chain of symbolic reasoning in Principles of Quantum Mechanics, and among them none is more articulate, more authoritative, more sensible than Sir James Hopwood Jeans, president...
Issues, of course, were local but the general issue of National Government (i. e. rule by Conservatives under an outcast Laborite Prime Minister) was well to the fore. From the standpoint of the Briton in the street there is something tricky about the "National Government." He had a chance last week to approve or reject the able trick that has given Great Britain a balanced budget, revived her industry by tariffs and made bankers and blue bloods feel safe. What would be the verdict...
...investment. It also meant a chance to win $150,000, $75,000 or $50,000 for tickets on the horses which took first, second or third places. But there were 37 horses entered in the race. And at the Ritz-Carlton last week sat a big, bland, dapper, young Briton ready to pay from $3.500 to $16,800 cash for tickets on a large number of likely winners...
...registrants, Commissioner Knox found last week that he had on his hands 520,000. Under the plebiscite program, less than two weeks remained in which League supervisors could attempt to check the lists and weed out perhaps 200,000 frauds. Calling this time limit hopeless, testy Briton Knox prepared to ask the League for an extension of the checking period, hinted that it may be necessary to postpone the plebiscite itself...