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Colonel Edward Riley Bradley (May 7, 1934), who had won the Kentucky Derby four times up to 1934. His horse Bazaar was one of the 1934 favorites, finished out of the money. Colonel Bradley did not win another Derby...
...shipped to a Canadian camp near Guildford, England. He went AWOL at Christmas time, he said, because a guardroom sergeant made his life miserable. Then, for four years and eight months, right under the noses of the Canadian Army, he lived an unsoldierly life of Riley...
Most of Britain's famous motormakers (Morris, Austin, Rover, Rolls-Royce, Bentley, etc.) will soon be busy. Some of them have much greater problems than others. The Rover Co. had had its Coventry factory gutted. Riley and M. G. Car Co. had their jigs and body-making patterns destroyed. These immediate disadvantages may well be compensated by the eventual advantages of coming out with new models instead of modified 1939 models...
...John J. Riley, Secretary of the American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages, last week pointed out to the House Special Committee to Investigate Food Shortages that the last time the production of soft drinks was cut in half (during the depression) more than half the operating plants folded up. Big producers like Coca-Cola Co. (with some 1,200 bottling units), Pepsi-Cola Co., Dr. Pepper Co., etc. may hang on until the sugar shortage eases. But for the smaller companies the outlook is gloomy. A drop in production will wipe out their slim profits...
...Reporter Earl Banner zipped into Montreal, shot a quick glance around, then sat down and whipped off a dispatch for the Boston Daily Globe and the New York Times. Gist: Canadians are living the life of Riley; there are no shortages of meat, butter, cigarets, liquor, fuel, women's & children's clothing. In fact, said Reporter Banner, "rationing has inflicted just one inconvenience" on Canadians-they have to tear out stamps...