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A visitor just returned to Eng- publication should be addressed to ous Loch Enoch in Kürdcudbright- the Editor, and be accompanied by shire, Scotland, it being one of the land from Russia states that he of the was struck by the extent to which the Writer's Name and Address highest bodies of water not necessarily for insertion, bur British Isles and one of the most the Soviet authorities are still
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sought loch. because of the trout Alike in organised celebrations without tails that inhabit its and in the press, he found a crude The number waters. The deformed fish exhibit insistence on food. deficiencies in their ventral fins of pictures of workers and pta-
NEW PROCESS
SPEEDS DRYING AND ADDS TO
STRENGTH OF PRODUCT ·
(By Waldemar Kaempffer)
and tails, but the dorsal fins are sants "having a bite" in možel A doing other technical work nised authorities as Professors
FTER building bridges and,not vouched for by such recog- unimpaired. This freak of nature tenements or on collective farms.
Crane and Duff is attributed to the hard-rasp-like seemed to him to border on mono-in China, Australia, Egypt and Theodore
England, Karl Pau! Billner, Abrams (Yale), this weary be Hong Kong. Monday, Sept. 7. 1336 sand on the bottom and Shores of mania.
What clinched his conviction Swedish engineer, turned up in skeptic would decline.to the loch, known as granite, detri- tus, which files off the trouts' tails were the bread and meat vans in the United States just before moved. But there is no gain- whenever they come contact Moscow and in certain provincia! that country entered the World saying the Crane-Abrams tests. More engineering work They show that a bard, dry with it. This sand is highly rain-capitals. Moscow has the small-War.
The Future Of Unit Trusts
The Report of the British
of knives. Departmental Committee Enquiry into Fixed Trusts, with
in
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crete. for sharpening their scythes and capital; other Russian cities have the mixing and pouring of con-15 minutes and that after one In fact, concrete beweek its strength will be from next to no foreigners.
Yet these vans have "meat" and came a specialty of Billner's. 53 to 81 per cent. greater than "bread" painted on their sides in Ee built the first concrete that of an equivale t slab made three languages Russian, En-bridges in Oregon and develop in the ordinary w
led what is known as aerocon-
Billner's process is simplici- glish and French.
The visitor discovered that this crete, which has been widetyt itself. His first step is to used in U.S.A. and abroad. The put a rubber or metal mat over Louis
particularly naive example
Steel Company's
the first batch of freshly pour- its recommendations will doubt July to 1954, Joe
fought his first professional
propaganda began in 1933, when Bethlethem
building. less be subject to debate, but in
tiny
ed, wet concrete. The mat is the main its findings and pro-match in Chicago before a
National Broadcasting Com- provided with nipples from
Rockefeller posals should be regarded by crowd of 300, and received exact- the shortage of these two staple main
which lengths of hose lead to a i all the interests involved as 17 $50 for knocking Jack Cracken foodstuffs reached its height.
He also remarked that foreign pany's offices in
Centre and many Government
suction pump. A switch is helpful. practical and
The out in a single round. Just over
Louis met inscriptions were noticeably ab later,
The electric motor thrown Fixed Trust movement is barely two years
sent from the sides of vodka and structures are built of his aero-
¡concrete. comeback а
that drives the pump starts up. five years old, but its growth in Jack Sharkey in
Like other engineering con- The pump sucks out air and popularity has been so rapid campaign and drew $42,000 for
tractors before him he that it has already attracted three rounds. His professional re-
struck with its flexibility. He water continuously from under the mat on the vacuum-cleaning something like £50,000,000 of cord for 28 contests is: 25 KO's,
could set up moulds and pourrinciple as fast as concrete is public money," subscribed main-4 decisions and once knocked out.
walls and floors in a few hours. ly in small amounts by small H
zavers.
EVEREST
The movement is, in EXPEDITION TO important aspects, beyond the reach of existing Company Law, and is not amenable to Stock Exchange control Early this year a Sub-Committee of the Stock Exchange examined the movement and accepted it. but suggested that legislation to provide safeguards for the
As al investor was desirable.
It
"I Shall Never Try
Again"
MONKS PRAYED FOR SUCCESS
beer vans.
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Your Daily Smile!
For Round Notes
office
the
was
He was showing a friend; aroundBut then came the tedious pro-/noured. But this is not all. his ultra-modern house.
Well-Which Is It?
Ahem!
But I
Pressure Of Atmosphere
Fifteen or 20 minutes after
There are lots of points about-ilcess of "setting," a process of that I like," said the candid friend, drying, though one accompani
The atmosphere has weight. chemical by marked "and there are some that I do not ed
It presses with a force of 14.7 understand. Why, for instance, the changes. round hole in the front door?" ..
Evaporation is simply a matounds to the square inch on "Oh, that's for circular letters."
ter of water molecules rising wverything at sea level. So a into the air from a wet mass. pressure of some 1,400 pounds The flm magazte was describing The rate of evaporation is de to the square foot is applied by termined by the pressure. On the atmosphere to the concrete his latest picture,
"My boy," he said, "it's tremen-Pike's Peak, for example, waters the pump does its work. As dous! It's magnificent! It's masto-boils at less than the sea-level result the concrete is pressed pre- Plymouth. result the President of the
donic It's mediocre!"
In-together-solidified and 212 degree Fahrenheit... Board of Trade promptly Mr. Hugh Ruttledge, leader of
crease the pressure within a shrunk. That is how the mix- appointed the expert and re- the 1936 Mount Everest expedi-
boller and the boiling orture acquires its great strength presentative Committee whose ition, which was beaten by bad
A woman from the city was visit- Report was issued last month. weather, has made His last attempting in a small town, and one day.cvaporation is a sort of boiling compared with ordinary con-
sbe whether or not heat is applied crete Broadly speaking, it follows the lines of the Report of the to scale the world's highest peak while doing her marketing.
In future he will live in a yacht asked the butcher how he happened Reduce the pressue of the
to choose his business.
atmosphere, which means creat Stock Exchange Sub-Commit- with Brixham, Devon, as his base. Be hesitated a moment and then ing a partial vacuum, and water "umping has stopped the mat or can be removed. Lo, a surface Itee issued last March.
can be made to boil realises, for instance, that the and will be satisfied with climbing said: "Well, I don't know.
always was fond of animals.”
evaporate very rapidly without on which a man can walk with- No * Fixed or Flexible Trust both smaller mountains.
He outlined these plans when he
any heat at all. In fact, out leaving footprints.
A road the Committee suggests, should
• FLEECE
vacuum drying or evaporation racks, no air holes.
fac-thus built is ready for passen- in future be called "Unit" arrived at Plymouth from India Trusts has come to stay. It recently in the F. and O. liner Isaac and Jacob were millionaires,
The made their money in stocks and is a familiar process in Mooltan.
tories. Why not try it on con-ger automobiles in two days, instead of the usual seven; for has caught the public fancy.
heavy trucks in one week in- а So they bought him a farm in West) EVERY WATCH IS FULLY GUARANTEED FOR 5 YEARS. and filled a public want, since it "We saw Mount Everest at its Benjamin's business proved a failure crete?
Starthing Results offers the small investor the worst." he said, "We reached
Australia
Billner has tried it. The stead of three.
(Continued on Page 7) Sole Agents:
chance of "spreading the height of 20,000ft, but never had
a chance because the monsoon Family likenesses run deep;
If it were risk” with his small pur-
broke earlier than ever before" He finds a living by fleeting sheep.result is startling. Hitherto the opportunity to! Will Be Conquered "spread the risk" has only been Mr. Ruttledge believes that! within the reach of the more Everest will be climbed one day. affluent. Equally the Report There will be no difficulty in recognises that fresh legisla-obtaining permission for another tion is required to enforce ces expedition," he said, “the old - ob- tain standards of management jection on religious grounds by and to prevent the development
Government has of abuses in future. This is
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the Tibetan
wise, because it cannot be vanished. We were entertained safely assumed that the movemost hospitably at a monastery 16 ment would always be in hands miles from our base camp.
"The 300 monks there offered as sound as those which have!
for our success, and controlled it so far. The Com-Prayers
of our blessed us on the eve
mittee's proposals include com- departrue. pulsory registration and a com- **Strange beliefs still exist,
pulsory deposit with the Pay-
we
master-General, similar to that however. For instance, it is be- which is enforced in the ease of lieved that moving a stone means insurance companies.
It is the release of sa evil spirit, and recommended that full accounts we had some difficulty when are to be filed and available to wanted to remove boulders, from unit-holders, and that Stamp our path at the beginning of the Duty should be payable on ascent.”
shall
transfers of units. Most im- Mr. Rutledge added, “I portant of all, perhaps, are the ever climb Everest. At 51 I am I shall still climb recommendations designed to too old.
secure that unit-holders shall smaller peaks, and they are often have voting rights and the harder than the biggest moun- ultimate control of the affairs tains.”.
of their Trust, and the power to appoint auditors of their {own choice.
vised restrictions it should go ahead and continue to be both All these proposals are a help to the small saver of straightforward and work-capital and a means of divert- manlike, and it is clear from ing much money hitherto allur the statement issued by the ed by the appeal of less desir- Managers Association that in able projects. As the Report their essentials they will be suggests, the movement, if accepted by the. Trust move properly controlled, may be a ment itself. Assuming that the useful complement to existing Government will
introduce savings institutions, and may legislation to implement the play an important part in the Committee's suggestions, Bri-economic life of England by tain may hope shortly to see directing the saved capital of this new form of investment go the mall man into the finance forward under a public charter, of British commerce and indus- which will give reasonable try. Not the least interesting safety to the investor and will passage in this ably written fortify. Trusts of the honest Report is that which points out and desirable type with the that, owing to the stil gradua hallmark of official recognition tion of taxation on higher in This is a happy prospect. The comes, British industry has to movement, if left uncontrolled, look for its finance more and might have developed serious more to the aggregate savings dangers. Under carefully de- of the many.
shares.
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT” by Robert L Ripley
JOE LOUIS
LOCH ENOCH
Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
THE LAKE OF THE TAILLESS TROUT
A BUILDING CAN BE RAZED
AFTER IT HAS BEEN RAISED BUT IT CANNOT BE RAISED
AFTER IT HAS BEEN RAZED
RECENED SO FOR HIS
FIRST PRO FIGHT IN 1954: LESSIHAN 2 YEARS LATER
HE WILL RECENT ABOUT 330,000
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