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...Princeton varsity is rated current favorite for the Goldthwait Cup. It stroked away from Columbia last week. The Yale eight barely defeated Kent School and lost to Pennsylvania...
Visiting Churchill at his Kent estate, Chartwell, one day last week, Rab Butler pleaded with the P.M. against a fall election and in favor of a tough budget which might not be popular in an election year, but would be helpful later on. The Prime Minister, his nostrils aflare with the tempting spring air, said he would think it over...
...newspaper years, acid-penned Swaffer made so many enemies that he once thought it unsafe to enter the Savoy. He often headed his column: "People Who Are Not Speaking to Me." He started out as a reporter at 16 on the Folkestone Express in his native Kent, joined Lord Northchffe's Daily Mail in 1903 and started a chit-chat column. He quickly learned that vinegar will catch more flies than honey...
Over the mud flats of the Isle of Grain, 40 miles down the Thames from London, rose a strange new smell. It was the acrid odor of distilling oil from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s Kent refinery, which went into operation last week. When it gets into full production late this year, the $112 million refinery will boost the company's output of gasoline and other petroleum products by 80,000 bbls. a day-1½ times as much as all of Britain's prewar capacity...
...Anglo-Iranian, the Kent plant was the first big milestone on the road back from the catastrophe of expropriation in Iran. Anglo-Iranian lost 77% of its production of crude and 80% of its refinery capacity in the billion-dollar plant at Abadan, largest refinery in the world. Coming on top of damage in Europe during the war, the Abadan loss was such a blow to Anglo-Iranian-as well as to the oil supply of the free world-that the major U.S. oil companies hastily pooled their resources to try to make up the deficit...