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In spite of all the loving care Britons have spent on their pets, war has played havoc in the United Kingdom of Animals. In the early days, London Zoo was closed for the first time in no years. When the Zoo's poisonous snakes had to be killed (to...
- The loss of 6,000 tons of chilled beef was a loss indeed for Britons. On March 11, the United Kingdom goes on a ration of 1 shilling 10 pence worth of fresh meat per adult person per week (children under 6, half that). This will mean one pound to...
One of England's great preachers, William Orchard was trained as a Presbyterian but attained fame as a liberal in a Congregational pulpit-King's Weigh House Church in London's West End. He, who once used to keep away from church at Easter because he had...
Engineer Halliday decided to hire enough black bucks to dam the Dangu and create an artificial lake. A whole village, more than 200 blacks, were hired at a shilling and tuppence (27?) a head per week. In the sweating jungle Congo belles wheedled out of their bosses split piston rings...
Bubbling Elspeth Huxley, photographer, big-game hunter, agriculturist and mystery writer (latest: The African Poison Murders), cousin-by-marriage of Aldous and Julian, told a Manhattan reporter how she had her personal devils exorcised by black tribal quacks in Kenya Colony, British East Africa: "There was a lot of mumbo...