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Even some foreign companies are suffering from the walkout. Shaver Poultry Breeding Farms Ltd. of Cambridge, Ont., is one of the world's largest poultry firms. Every 24 hours it ships as many as 50,000 day-old chicks to clients around the globe, some of them in the U.S. Newborn chicks can live for no more than three days without feeding, which is prohibitively expensive during transport. Thus air freight is essential for Shaver's business. Says a company official: "For the moment we are managing, but if U.S. flights halt, that could start backing up Canadian...
...Robert Gooden, 41, owner of Worldwide Butterflies Ltd. and Lullingstone Silk Farm, who projects the somewhat abstract intensity of a man on a perpetual hunt for the perfect specimen. Lullingstone provided the silk for Lady Diana's wedding dress. Nestled in the rolling hills of Dorset, hard by Gooden's mansion, it is the only silk farm in England. Its worms, which dine on mulberry leaves, have provided silk for the wedding dress of Queen Elizabeth and for the cloak Charles wore when he was invested as Prince of Wales. Started by Lady Hart Dyke in the 1930s...
...taking pains to look like Lady Diana; but of the boys I have observed, none is making the least effort to look like the Prince of Wales. How should this be?" One reason may be that the Prince steers clear of trends. His suits are made by Johns & Pegg, Ltd., exclusively military tailors until World War II, which made the naval ceremonial day coat in which the Prince will approach the altar. "We keep up with fashion, but we don't lead fashion," says Peter Johns...
...Most of the presents received in the past by royalty were never used," remarks H.B. Brooks-Baker of Debrett's Peerage Ltd., publishers of Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. "Contrary to popular belief, the Prince doesn't really have anything at all beyond museum pieces, such as signed pieces of furniture and valuable paintings. He doesn't have breakfast china or a toaster...
Launched in 1953 at John Brown and Co., Ltd., Clydebank, at a cost of $5.9 million, Britannia has spent more than her share of time in drydock and hot water. She has required eleven overhauls costing $56 million. Annual running operation now comes to $5.4 million, a sore point in Parliament. In 1976, Britannia was refused permission to sail into Montreal for the Summer Olympics until she made costly changes to her sanitary system, which Canadian officials believed would pollute the St. Lawrence River...