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Planned Economy. In Thurso, Scotland, the town council inspected Andrew McPhee's municipally owned three-room house, decided he needed more space after learning he shared his home with 21 relatives to cut down expenses...
...more authoritative voice spoke on that subject, the voice of handsome, immaculate Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair. Sir Archibald is seldom heard in Parliament. One reason is that, on his feet, he stammers. Yet this 49-year-old Scottish baronet, who owns 100,000 acres in Caithness, lives in Thurso Castle and rose to the top in Parliament as a diligent, sincere, fighting Liberal, is a nailer for work, a respected soldier, and at a radio microphone none can read a speech more mellifluously than he. Last week he went on the air. Said...
Last week, to make his telephones really popular, he recklessly reduced telephone rates on the British mainland to all-time lows. The daytime price for a call from Penzance in Cornwall to Thurso in northeastern Scotland, a distance of nearly 1,000 miles, will be four shillings ($1). The top price after 7 p. m. anywhere on the mainland will be one shilling. In the U. S. the cheapest comparable rate for the same distance (New York-Chicago) is $1.80. Estimated loss of British revenue the first year: ?500,000. By that time, Sir Kingsley figures, Britons will be "telephone...
...eavings, seashells and flint scrapers. . . . Not only generations but races too drizzle away so fast, one wonders the more urgently what it is for. . . ." Poet Jeffers has already shown how, against the desert western American landscape, the characters of his imagination, impelled by Greekish lusts, drizzle themselves away. In Thurso's Landing he writes his most native American, least Greekish tragedy, leaving sexual perversion almost entirely out. Its terrors are more Amerindian than Greek ?the terrors of a diminishing race under Nature's relentlessly observant, semi conscious eye. The outlines of the Amer ican continent and of its troubled...
...THURSO's LANDING ? Robinson Jeffers-right...