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...investment income of ?200 million, plus shipping earnings, commissions and other receipts came within ?40 million of balancing her payments. But the war has severely reduced her investments, has crip pled her ability to pay cash for imports...
...Most present-day appliances for crip, pled people, including her own braces, are "medieval," says Betsey Barton...
...While the Germans hammered these targets, they continued pounding at seaports: Cardiff, Bristol, Portsmouth, Harwich, Dungeness, Hull. Only British stubbornness prevented the evacuation last week of such smashed-up places as Ramsgate, Dover, Southampton (see col. j). In the headlines appeared damage to such sentimental landmarks as St. Giles, Crip-plegate, in London where Oliver Cromwell was married and John Milton buried. Milton's statue was blown from its pedestal before the church (see cut). Also damaged were the spire of Rochester Cathedral, Novelist Henry James's house...