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AS THE CHINA MAIL,
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1957.
JAMBOREE
Solo
GILES
'Nativos of Birmingham TO ARMS! And drive the invadors from our fair plains of Sutton Coldfiold."
YWORLD SCOOT JUBILAG
MBOREE
The Union Jack is
a fine
salesman
as says
VICTOR Ellison swings round in his office chair as he puts down one of a with a smile that shows he is enjoying himself hugely.
"If I can get some shipping space quickly enough, I can send some cement to Florida." He buzzes on the intercon and asks: "Have we heard any more about that ship yet?" In a year, Ellison sells about £45 million worth, of cement more than anyone else in the world.
The Florida order runs into only £8,000 or to. "But it is the first time we have got in there. So we must have a go, mustn't we?" I agree that "we must," and Ellison Tooks happier than ever,
He is a cheerful 19-year-old with a who bosses the slimness horseman's Cement Marketing Co., selling end of the big Blue' Circle group. You can see his 1,000 yellow and blue lorries trundling about the roads from Dundee to St Austell, Je has a navy," too of 1 lugs, 140 lighters, two elay-carrying ships and a coaster.
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For 30 years Ellison has been in rement starting right at the bottom leking stamps, he says. He works in a all room in a big building in Tothill Streel. Many much smaller bossos sur- round themselves in A more imposing
But
work- style.
his only a-day finery
four are
fine you It goes Monahans of wild duck und Singapore and as far West geese in flight to adorn his dove the British West Indies.
THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO grey offee walls.
The ideal Gift for friends ·
CHINESE
CREEDS
博爾克德
HONGKONG
AND
CUSTOMS
VOLUME
by
V. R. BURKHARDT
Illustrated by the Author
Five Colour Platos
- THIRD IMPRESSION
$18,00
俗
S. C. M. POST OFFICES
KOWLOON
39
far East
by
ALEXANDER THOMSON
29
—says VICTOR ELLISON, the
man who sells more cement
than anyone else in the world
as stige," he adds, "sales of British
good's very soon suffer.“ A family man
I ask about salesmanship 1 ask if shooting is a favourile this highly competitive world. "The Union Jack is one of the sport. No, It's hunting. "A won-
we have," derful way of preventing best salesman middle-age spread and keeping replies. ft," he says.
Ellison was a
"a
iv
He should have a talk about At one time
Chat,
Lori 1 thought, with dashing footballer and cricketer Douglas of Kirtleside who has
Jack had the Union
removed from DEA timetables and Hickets.
in works teams, but he is bit past it now."
Last, and first
costs
Ellison With evident pride that cites the example of Singapore. it was a love of horses
East The Japanese have a 40s. a ton led him into joining the
In shipping Riding Yeomanry in 1938. As n advantage subaltern he got away From there. "But we can still send in Dunkirk in 1940 on the last 1,000 tons of cement a week, and de. He landed in France again sell it for higher prices than the as a major with the first tide on Japs, because of Brush the "D" Day beaches. He ended stige," he says. the war as a lieutenant-colonel.
pre-
From his small room in Tothill
Street Victor Ellison
has 11
Most of Victor Ellison's seli- ing is in the home market. But pretty good bird's-eye view
about £6,000,000 many export he also sends
Ellison is a family man-with #young man's family. He has two small daughters who sweep big business right out of bla
weekends thoughts at during the holidays.
WAS GIVEN 600 ELECTRIC SHOCKS
A Volunteer Brainwashed
TREVELYAN
OATES,
18-year-old, sturdily built Scottish aircraftman, allowed a doctor to give him more than 600 severe cloc tric shocks, Until ha
became so confused that he could no longer distinguish what was true from what ho imagined.
Dr Jan Oswald adminis- fered the 290-volt shocks at the RAF hospital at Halton Buckinghamshire, in experiments which probe Communist "brain-washing" methods.
The "exceptionally brave volunteer." as the doctor cals him, took the shocks on the legs at the rato of 50 an hour.
He was also subjected to binding flashes from
L. A. C. Oates exceptionally brave
powerful electric lamp held only six inches from his 0 eyes. At the same time
made warning sound was through earphones.
With each shock he convulsed and was almos; thrown off the on which he was lying couch
und fear while Dr Oswald recorded his "brain-waves" sponses.
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that is used all over Victor Ellison's desk. He glances apparently,
at it and looks as if he is en- the world. Same colour
Joying himself more than ever, to do with I wonder if at last he has found "It has nothing Portinnd-or its Bill. It got the a fast bost to Florida for those name in the early days," Elison bags of cemeat.
and out A quick goodbye. explains, "because it was the
A man who sells the original into a taxi. same colour na Portland stone."
£45 millon worth of anythingfold Alterafiman Oates he was One of the office staff comes a year mustn't be kept gossip in and puts a piece of paper on ing for long.
FACTONIO LILATATUAREN AURKAS DE PARASTUNED
Saving money and steel
DEINFORCED concrets saves Britain many thousands of ment offices in Whitehall Gardens, structural stool was used for the first half of the building.
The rest
saving WAS £150,000.
Cor a lot of money, too. In new Govern
bad
The reinforced concrete.
Too Brutal Afler 300 shocks the
doctor
to get further shocks and light flashes, but did not give them. Instead, only the warning note was given.
Oates nevertheless went into convulsions as though severely chocked and was convinced that the light had flashed in his eyes, At this a age he could not dis- tirguish between really and The shocks what he was told. were later resumed.
Dr Oswald now considers that too there experiments were
does not intend to brutal and
At such strength
RAF re-
CEMENT OUTPUT IS DOUBLED IN 11 YEARS repent them
NEW other Industries
Dr
Oates, Reguler cruit, has gone
18 days normal leave-he gels no extra for
his ordealo vlei! his mother a Editrion, a village
en anyone che.
and
FEW
can equal the expansion record of the cement makers. In 11 years they have nearly doubled their output.
#
缸
1946
1948.
Tone 0.593,000 2,538,000
1050
9,746,000
1962 1964 1965
11,295,000
11,700,000
While he sells cement in big way his wife farms in small way round their country home. Does it make a profit? I enquire a lite hesitatingly, "That is a question only for the tax man," he jokes.
We switch to cater toples. Why is the best cement always called Portland cement? It is a word
12,713,000
At today's prices they are now turning out more than $70 million worth of cement a year,
FOR OUR DAILY BREAD
THE cement
makers sell to almost every industry in the land. They even
the ingredients in our daily bread. Each year 10,000 tons of finaly washed and purified chalk are sent to the flour millers. of Chalk, a raw material for cement, is a form of calcium. It helps build good
teeth and strong bones,
助ける markets.
pre-
worth of cement overseas each countries where we lose
MISS LILLY (
by SARAH ROTHSCHILD
who wrote a book
on how to marry one
IS BORED
WITH MILLIONAIRES
LILLY, whose novel How to Marry a
Sho was invitud to Europe,
Honduras.
MISS DORIS La 100,000 copies in five languages, does Mexico and British e
not practise what she preaches. For at the age of 32 she is sta spinster.
ex-
pensive presents. "But I travel light. Only a few old diamond plus," she said. I afternoon
went
In her One
tlfly globetrotting 1000-ton
has met in luxury suite
the big enough to hold a
Miss Lily says to her
10 yacht, Except, It seems, the port several "beaux." millonaires' favourite holel
find out why she has not hooked of London.
an oll king, a film tycoon or at least a well-endowed European nobleman.
a
cho
to have Q
Mi53
definition Lilly's
of
writing is Therefore she millionaire: "a man who's another book called How To got it and spends it."-
Make Love in Five Languages, Miss Lilly is lucky to have "The tile," says Miss Lally,
genuine million- sems
slightly Miss Lilly, dressed in a dimsy met so many
curlers, was aires.
sinister connotation in English." nightdress and
a travel phrase In fact it is sprawled on
USEFUL PHRASES
book. Inatcad of giving auch phrases as "When is the next train?" or "Where is the nearest post office?" it gives the phrases essential for social Intercouree,
darkened room.
she added,
in her bed
a
says,
DORIS LILLY.
"A man who's got t
and spends It," "I have very low blood pres- "It's a good idea for a girl sure," a volce croaked from the to know the value of money."
"You see," Gold Mine Lilly bed. Also, Miss Lilly told me, she
Miss Lilly clarted
"I've got a waking up a bit, she had been drinking magnums young. Her parents were medi- of champagne till three that ne manufacturers, She became For instance, "I think you are two-week round trip air ticket to the most beautiful girl I have New York, and I've also got a morning.
then a a beauty consultant,
seen since I loft America" or friend in the Isle of Wight. If I "I'm bored with millionaires," press agent and finally a starlet. Certainly I'd love to go out to break the trip I'll lose 100
Suddenly she found herself in
Junch,"
I am quite sure that Miss In my best bedside manner I the International set.
The assured her that was probably a
transitional period
Lilly will be catching her plane normal reaction for somebody vague. "But I never had time
back to New York-unless, Her main problem at the course, there are much unlikely with a hangover-and without a for men who weren't famous.”
Luckily the millionaires didn't moment is whether millionaire. I thought,
the Isle of things in the Isle of Wight as
hundred. millionaires. a the some
way about Wight is worth But I was wrong. Miss Lilly foel
dollars. bas a millionaire in every port unknown Miss Lilly.
DILEMMA
dollars."
London Express' Hervice),
of
in north Scotland,
Dr Grey Walter, the Bristol
expert, said
brain
mentr
ok
this.
"Exper)~ shcd 'kind light CI1 the more brutal
methods of brain-washing."
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
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EVEN IN THE
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Fine granulated sugar is now
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