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...hunting mill he had fled four years before, he had recommendations few job seekers could offer-from U. S. Admiral Harry Yarnell of the Asiatic Fleet, the Governor-General of Australia, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, the First Lord of the British Admiralty, the Lord Provost of Glasgow, even from the Lord Mayor of London himself, on Mansion House stationery. But most highly prized was one on the chaste paper of Lambeth Palace, a character from the Archbishop of York himself, a dignitary, says Long, who draws quite a lot of water in England...
Cardiff. Total Solids 177 (177) Compare this with - London Total Solids 357 (274) (Central) Glasgow Total Solids 308 (277) (Alexandra Park) Liverpool Total Solids 683 (560) (Netherfield Rd.) Bourneville Total Solids 159 (110) (A showplace garden city...
...drab, run-down streets of industrial Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, were face-lifted with banners & bunting last week as their Majesties, King George VI and his Scottish Queen, Elizabeth, arrived to open officially Glasgow's $50,000,000 Empire Exhibition. Glasgow citizens, 50,000 of whom are still unemployed despite the Clydebank's shipbuilding and rearmament boom, lined the streets and cheered lustily as the royal couple, riding in an open landau drawn by spanking Windsor greys, jogged out to the exhibition site, wooded Bellahouston Park. There in the neighboring Ibrox soccer stadium before...
Compared to the much-postponed Paris Exposition of last year, the Glasgow fair set a record by being 98% ready on opening day. By week's end well over half a million visitors had entered the gates of the 175-acre park. Entirely a "family affair" designed to further British Empire trade relations, the exhibition is made up of pavilions representing the Home Country, the Dominions, various Crown colonies and two special halls showing off Scotland to the empire...
...exhibition's managers have been beset with protests since the fair was planned. Built in the midst of a Glasgow local option "dry" area, it took a special act of Parliament to insure thirsty Scots of a "wee deoch an' doris" on the grounds. Strait-laced Scots, who are now righteously demanding that the grounds be closed on Sundays, last week objected to three classic statues of nude women. The canny Scottish exhibitors, not wishing to spoil the commercial attraction of the statues, temporarily solved the problem- they "clothed" the nudes by pasting pieces of paper...