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LAMENT FOR A MAKER-Michael Innes -Dodd, Mead ($2). A poet-madman, lord of gloomy Castle Erchany, is found dead at the foot of his castle tower. Ingenious plot; scholarly, leisurely style; copious Scottish dialect...
...slack seasons for seaside resorts like Brighton, Bournemouth and Ryde; in coal production, down from 20,000,000 tons year ago to 17,000,000 this June. The figures which most jolted British investors were the earning reports of the four chief railway companies-London & North Eastern, London, Midland & Scottish, Great Western, The Southern. Fortnight ago, when all four showed net revenues far below expectations and Great Western passed the first interim dividend since its consolidation, there were editorials in many a paper...
...Dalkeith, ten miles from Edinburgh. Last week Anglo-American made its first shipment (2,000 gal.) from Dalkeith to its refinery at Purfleet on the Thames. It took the biggest "shot" ever exploded in the British Isles, over 500 lb. of gelatinous nitroglycerin, to bring in the new Scottish field. Result was the biggest yield of oil thus far struck in the British Isles; at 750 feet the yield of one well is a modest 10 bbl. a day. Usable in Diesel engines without refining, the oil yields 12% gasoline, 12% kerosene...
...dogs . . . except one. . . . Following periods of softening and draining of clear fluid, the tumors as a rule . . . gradually disappeared." Especially elated were Scientists Strong & Whitney over the recovery of two eight-year-old bitches with advanced cancer of the breast, one a cocker spaniel, the other a Scottish terrier...
...John Reith's new appointment left BBC without a director-general, the choice of his successor was a matter of prime public interest. Britishers had come to believe that dour, resourceful Sir John was the BBC. For he had never hesitated to take on his own broad, stooped Scottish shoulders direct and total responsibility for BBC policies and moral tone...