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...research for the Scotch shale industry. The British Colonial office sent him to Rumania and Burma on oil expeditions. The War made him Chairman of the Inter-Allied Petroleum Council and technical adviser in the development of a counter terror to poison gas. The War too gave him his knighthood and his first personal contact with U. S. oilmen...
Honored. Henry Ford, the Royal Order of the Crown of Italy; University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, knighthood in the French Legion of Honor; General Douglas MacArthur, the Grand Cross of the Rumanian Order of the Star; Arturo Toscanini and Campbell Bascom Slemp, the commander's cravat of the French Legion of Honor; Professor Auguste Piccard, knighthood in the Belgian Order of Leopold; Poet Maurice Maeterlinck, grand officer in the Legion of Honor...
...Caribbean Sea, the time soon after the death of England's second Charles. At this period pirates and buccaneers, having buried their pots of gold, were beginning to bury themselves. Even a respectable pirate like Henry Morgan had been retired to the governorship of Jamaica, bribed with a knighthood, pending his extermination of what few old buccaneer friends of his still carried on. Most reprobate, most elusive was Morgan's old associate Tom Leach. His bad ship Black Swan was rarely sighted, then only to the sighting crew's short-lived regret...
...Manallace remained a hack. During the War they were thrown together again. Castorley said something about the woman Manallace loved, which inspired in Manallace a smoldering anger. Years later, when Castorley had become so prominent as an author on "our Dan" that the slightest jiggle might pitch him into knighthood, a fragment of a hitherto unknown "Canterbury Tale" turns up in New York. Castorley is of course consulted. The lines he proclaims undoubtedly authentic: "Plangent as doom, my dear boy?look...
...Dagenham, along with milk floats, fire engines, tractors, tappers, scrapers, diggers, lorries. London auto critics had only one objection to the new Ford: the petrol tank atop the engine. Neither Sir Herbert Austin nor Sir William Richard Morris had anything to say. For Henry Ford, King George had no knighthood...