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...that time actually moved out of Philadelphia. The occasion was the British occupation of Philadelphia by General William Howe in the Revolution. Chartered in 1759 by Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, Proprietaries and Governors-in-Chief of the Province of Pennsylvania and counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex upon Delaware, as "The Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children...
Died. Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, 61, chairman of the Dunlop Tire & Rubber Co., chairman of Imperial Airways; in Hassocks, Sussex...
...established State ownership of all domestic oil, hoping to make the Navy independent of foreign supplies. Enthusiastic geologists soon began to talk of the possibility of finding oil along a belt stretching from the west coast of Wales to the east coast of Yorkshire, and in Somerset and Sussex...
Last week at Grove Hill near Hellingly, Sussex, brawny workmen employed by Anglo-American Oil Co. began to drill with up-to-the-minute apparatus capable of boring more than a mile. Present with intense official interest was Lord Apsley, representing the Minister for Coordination of Defense. Some time in August, Britain will get another check on her home oil potential...
Birthday. Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and qf Strathearn, Earl of Sussex, only surviving son of Queen Victoria of England; great uncle of King George VI: 87; at Bournemouth, England...