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Bottleneck. Last night I stood on the Ava bridge beside two Scottish lads, Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners, who were ready to plunge a stick that would set off 2,000 lb. of explosives and wreck the second largest bridge in the Far East across the Irrawaddy River. British 25-pounders, manned by Indians, were hurling shells in the direction of Mandalay, which has been burning since April 4th and is overrun with dacoits and traitors who are shooting at the Chinese garrison in the darkness through the completely flattened ruins of a city of onetime 120,000 population, where...
Leading them was tall (6 ft. 4 in.), curly-haired, 30-year-old Major the Lord Lovat, famed Scottish horseman, whose Commando included men of Ulster, Palestine, Indian as well as Scottish and English regiments...
Globe started as Bennett Aircraft Corp. in March 1940, but Backer Frank Bennett was bought out ten months later. The company has an authorized capital of $350,000 and smart, Scottish-born John Kennedy as president. Kennedy went to Texas during World War I, picked up a reputation as an amateur boxer, made money in chemicals, vaccines, livestock. He set up Globe with the help and cheers of the local Chamber of Commerce. Its plant was a 50-by-300-ft. tile and galvanized-iron barn built for Kennedy's string of show horses. Its intended product...
...Scottish-American Archie Lochhead, former manager of the Treasury's two-billion-dollar stabilization fund, made every bucketful count for China. As head of Universal, he got good prices (current price, 38? a lb.), bought a thousand motor trucks and countless other items for China, dismantled and shipped whole factories across the Pacific, spent $60,000,000 on American goods. The Corporation sold about 150,000,000 lb. of tung...
Alone in her Scottish home last winter, grey-haired Lady MacRobert went on with her hobby of geology, went on watching the course of the war. It disturbed her that all the Allied counterblows were handicapped by shortage of aircraft. Like most Britons, she admired Russia's brave fight, believed that the next few months might decide the future of Europe...