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...Queen's Approval. Queen Victoria herself drove past and ordered the carriage slowed while she put on her spectacles to favor Tate's treat with an approving stare. The gallery-looming like a giant white stone wedding cake above the trees at Millbank-was destined to become almost as familiar a London tourist-haunt as Madame Tussaud's waxworks. Last week, the Tate was celebrating its 50th anniversary with a crowd-pulling show from its own storerooms, which boast Britain's best collection of English painting (including a fine group of Blakes) and of modern...
...down, no matter what the supply till everything else did too. Industrial users estimated that this will keep prices about 3? a pound higher than in an uncontrolled market. Bakers figured that it would add $30,000,000 a year to the nation's bill for cake alone...
...President had put Biffle up to it. A number of Harry Truman's old friends from his Senate days were there. While they ate Arkansas ham, turkey, potato salad and cake adorned with small flags of Missouri and the U.S., the Senators kidded Harry Truman about his not being able to join them when they returned to the chamber for the afternoon's debates. Les Biffle suggested: Why didn't the President walk in and take his old seat? Harry Truman thought it was a fine idea...
...Bitter Cake. Thus death came to U Aung San, young (33), able leader of the new Burmese nation, and seven fellow Cabinet ministers. Once a Japanese collaborator (like most Burmese leaders), little, bullet-headed Aung San had later helped the British organize a resistance movement among Burmans. He assumed the title Bogyok (General). As head of the A.F.P.F.L. (AntiFascist People's Freedom League), he had risen to power by staging civil servants' strikes, teachers' strikes, police strikes. (Said some British critics, after his death, "Since the A.F.P.F.L. cooked the cake [of violence], no wonder they have...
...whole wheat bread, she got two ancient, water-operated grist mills to grind the flour, stubbornly insisting that the gram had better flavor and nourishment when it was ground in that antiquated way. As she continued to expand, she added melba toast, pound cake, etc. to the Pepperidge line. But she was careful not to expand so fast that she could not finance it out of earnings. In all, she has had to borrow only $5,000 outside capital and has kept the company a family enterprise...