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...this second point, Benton reported: "At dinner in Liverpool, Lieut. Colonel Buckley, chairman of the Liverpool Gas Company . . . told me about Sir Sidney Jones, sitting on my right, [saying] 'Sir Sidney is a partner in a firm with only ?50,000 capital yet it now operates over 80 ships.' His tone was that of a man who scarcely expected to be believed...
Queueing workers complained to an Express reporter: 1) there are seldom special busses for workers from factories to distant railroad stations; 2) no extra busses for peak hours; 3) workers are not given priority over shoppers. In Liverpool, said the Express, "there is no all-night bus service; ship-repair workers sometimes have to sleep beside the job they have finished. . . . The bus queues are something more than an inconvenience to the public. They add as much as three hours every day to a working day of eight hours. ... By bringing a few hundred men from other tasks...
...Manhattan on business, lean, red-mustached Liverpool shipowner Major Leonard Cripps, taller, elder brother of tall Sir Stafford Cripps, waved away midsummer heat with his handkerchief, waved away his brother's socialistic notions as well. Of his brother, Social Security Planner Beveridge and their "sentimental" followers, the Major remarked: "In the country of mad hatters, I mean Britain, they're destroying civilization by giving away all this blasted money...
...From Our Towns: Close Up, a new book about the British slum-children evacuees: head lice were found on 20.8% of the Liverpool children, 19.8% of the Middlesbrough children and 17.3%of the Manchester children...
British Army major Coleman, who has lost his memory, escapes from an insane asylum in the confusion of armistice celebrations. Greer Garson helps him evade the authorities, and they eventually marry, settling down to a peaceful, idyllic English country existence. At Liverpool on business, Coleman is struck by a car, regains his memory, forgets his wife, and returns to resume his life as the squire of Random Hall. Reviving the family fortunes, he gains the title of "Industrial Prince of England." Meanwhile his wife traces him, becomes his private secretary. Coleman marries her again, this time for business reasons. Finally...