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Lord Beaverbrook is Britain's most brilliant newspaper publisher. His principal paper, the Daily Express (circ. 3,850,000), is the largest in the world. Brief, colorful, clear, the Express is also, technically, one of the best newspapers in the world. Its editorial opinions are no wiser or more enlightened than Beaver-brook's own: the paper is his mouthpiece...
...iron company which was later merged into Consolidated Steel Corp. In 1934, when Taylor became Consolidated's president, the company was in the red. He overhauled operations, cleaned out the deadwood and put Consolidated into the black. In 1938, when Los Angeles Union Oil, oldest and second largest West Coast oil company, was in need of the same kind of overhauling, hard-driving Reese Taylor, then...
...signed up make the Douglas group the largest in the University political arena. The young Rebublicans are second in enrollment...
...sseldorf, General Sir Brian Robertson, Britain's commander in Germany, addressed himself to the North Rhine-Westphalia Parliament. Cried he: "Come forward determined to make the best of the largest part of your country. . . ." For the foreseeable future, Russian obstruction had made one Germany impossible. On the far side of the Iron Curtain was "unity," Robertson said, but it was "unity with the Czechs and other people of Eastern Europe in a common bondage...
Wilted Flour. General Mills' plant in Buffalo, world's largest flour milling plant, shut down because of a slump in demand, was scheduled to resume this week at only 50% of capacity. The slump, which has slowed many other mills, was blamed on 1) Government red tape, which has slowed up export licenses, and 2) high prices...