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...Senators tacked on amendments, one to allow Pacific Coast shipyards to bid on the new ships with transportation costs considered, the other to build 25% of the airplanes in government plants. Great Britain- The biggest Navy budget since 1928 was presented to the House of Commons by Sir Bolton Meredith Eyres Monsell. First Lord of the Admiralty. Cost: ?56,550.000 ($287,274,000), or $15,158,400 more than last year. New ships: four cruisers, one aircraft carrier, nine destroyers, three submarines, many a small craft. France- The Doumergue Government pushed construction on a man o' war, two submarines...
ALTHOUGH Mr. Fisher has drawn the title of this, the second volume of Vridar Hunter's tetralogy, from George Meredith, he and his book own little else to Meredith's writing. Where "The Egoist" suggests and flashes, Mr. Fisher has sworn enmity to the principle of artistic selection; everything is written down and written through, however irrelevant or banal, and it is written simply. The result cannot be meretricious, there can be no temperamental flourishes, but one of the deepest of Meredith's lessons is that literary abases have a rich value all their own. What many critics have called...
Married. Albert Russel Erskine Jr., 25. Chicago advertising man, son of the Studebaker Corp. president who died by his own hand last summer (TIME, July 10); and Florence Meredith Howard, 24, showgirl; in Manhattan...
...farm magazine in the U. S. is Curtis Publishing Co.'s Country Gentleman, with a national circulation of 1,738,853. Close behind are Crowell Publishing Co.'s Country Home and Wilmer Atkinson Co.'s Farm Journal, with 1,500,000 apiece. Successful Farming, published by Meredith Publishing Co. in Des Moines with special attention to stock raising, has 1,150,000 readers. Capper's Farmer (Topeka) and American Farming (Chicago) have just under 1,000,000 as has Webb Publishing Co.'s Farmer's Wife which contains recipes for apple dumplings as well...
...Reacted with dominant Conservative cheers and impotent Laborite scowls when brisk, cheery Sir Bolton Meredith Eyres Monsell, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced an abrupt shift in the emphasis of Britain's current naval building program from small cruisers to large...