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Britain was hit even more savagely than the Continent. Some 95,000 miles of highways were completely out of service. Eight-foot drifts blocked the main road from London to Portsmouth, and near Weymouth, belated rescuers dug down to a snow-buried car, found two dead and three nearly smothered...
* Originally so that Swiss mercenaries could fight in the Continent's feudalistic wars without compromising their own land, later in order not to antagonize Switzerland's more powerful neighbors of modern Europe.
First warning was the telltale eye-stinging vapor that old Londoners know so well. Out went the Red Alert to 200 hospitals, which went on a disaster standby in readiness for elderly patients, who are most susceptible to smog-induced pneumonia and bronchitis (or the "English disease," as it has...
For the enterprising businessman, Africa is the continent of extremes: nowhere is industry less developed; in few places is there more eventual need for it. A United Nations purvey out this week estimates that industrial production in Arab, black and white Africa will double in the next ten years, and...
Wolfson's invasion of the Continent is only the latest product of a relentless drive for growth that has built his Great Universal Stores Ltd. into the largest mail-order enterprise outside the U.S.