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...York's Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. joined with Powell Duffryn, Ltd., Britain's largest coal firm, to build a $30 million oil refinery in Coryton, England. Under the deal, Socony sold a half-interest in its British subsidiary. Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd., to Powell Duffryn, in exchange for ?3,500.000 ($9,800,000) and the refinery site. Socony has put $3,000,000 in new capital into Vacuum Oil, will loan it $2,800,000 more to help start up refining operations. The deal will permit Socony to sell refined products in the sterling area despite Britain...
...When Ray Coryton Hutchinson's fourth novel, Shining Scabbard, was published last year, one excited English reviewer called him "one of the very few living English novelists who will be read fifty- perhaps a hundred-years hence." Other reviewers did not hurl their hats quite so high, but they agreed on Hutchinson's amazing virtuosity...
Thirteen years ago If Winter Comes (by Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson- not to be confused with Ray Coryton Hutchinson-made many a reader weep. The Unforgotten Prisoner should do likewise, but the tears will be of a better quality. Author Hutchinson has turned the difficult trick of writing a realistic modern romance, a contemporary story of strong but unmawkish sentiment, a poignantly sympathetic study of English and German victims of a war that did not make democracy safe...
...Author. Ray Coryton Hutchinson's first novel (The Answering Glory) made little impression on England. The Unforgotten Prisoner, his second, was chosen by the English Book Society. Twenty-seven-year-old Author Hutchinson has a job with the English advertising firm of J. & B. Colman, leans away from London literati. Before that he was an Oxonian but no esthete, no scholar. Though Author Hutchinson is no old soldier (he was too young to fight in the World War), his deeply-felt picture of post-War chaos will be classed with Erich Maria Remarque's The Road Back...
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