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...been due almost wholly to an expansion of the home market. The real surplus for 1933-34 was ?39,000,000. . . . This is the largest surplus in ten years and enables me to begin the long-awaited process of relief from heavy burdens. . . . Great Britain now has finished Bleak House and is sitting down to enjoy the first chapter of Great Expectations...
...wharves. Blackened, blank-faced men groped over the steaming ruins. A sharp sleet was falling. Soon it turned to snow. The survivors huddled in barracks on the peaks, in a few schools still standing, in the railway station and the British and Russian consulates. Some strayed out on the bleak mainland, looking for shelter in the huts of the aboriginal Ainus. Sixty of them died in the snow. Officials began doing their terrible sums. They made it: 1,500 dead, 2,000 injured, 23,000 buildings destroyed. Of the living, 23,000 were homeless...
...many a passage in his novels he pictured the desperate plight of the metropolitan poor, their crowded and filthy dwellings, the ignorance, disease and dirt that was complacently assumed to be their lot. Dickens pilloried child labor (David Copper field), venaliy-conducted charitable institutions (Oliver Twist), legal mummery (Bleak House). His account of the protracted suit of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce had a notable effect in speeding up British justice. Housing reform was the chief social interest of his last ten years. "The reforms of the people's habitations must precede all other reforms; without it all other reforms must...
...British naval sloop Milford, Vice Admiral Edward Radcliffe Garth Russell Evans commanding, hove to in the bleak South Atlantic one day last week to ride out a 70 m.p.h. storm. Brave Admiral Evans could not have found a lonelier spot. Full 2,000 mi. northeast lay Bechuanaland where last September he did his duty as a Briton and an officer in banishing a South African chief who had punished a white man (TIME, Sept. 25 et seq.). Four thousand miles farther on was Britain. Three thousand miles to the south was the South Pole where he had been...
Rich and famed is Charles Lanier Lawrance. designer of the Wright Whirlwind engine, onetime vice president of Curtiss-Wright Corp. One day last week big, amiable "Charley" Lawrance stood up on a rostrum of a bleak lecture hall at Manhattan's Columbia University. Gravely he drawled from a typewritten sheet: ". . . Cash on hand, $875.06. . . . Accounts receivable . . . 80?. . . . Net worth. $6,077.76." Amid a patter of applause Mr. Lawrance sat down...