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...They obliged me with beautifully packed plants of anything growable, from C for campanula to V for vitaliana: they arrived within a day of special dispatch....
...(FT) Shipping lines stalled For the container shipping industry, whose fortunes depend on globalisation, coronavirus has proven a formidable foe: sailors are stranded on ships, while containers arrived...
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...“Slow steaming” means containers essentially become “floating storage” devices....
...The Alexa mall, a stone’s throw away from Berlin’s Alexanderplatz, was open on Thursday but almost empty....
...Johnston himself....
...There’ll be Tube rolling stock, a shipping container and the story of the CND symbol. Then there’ll be a wall of 200 objects chosen by the public — Coke cans, coffee-makers, typewriters . . .”...
...He also showed me how to cut the V-shaped incisions that carved letters are made from. I acquired a sense of where letters had begun....
...The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, by Brad Stone, Bantam Press, RRP£18.99/Little, Brown, RRP$28 Stone entertainingly maps Bezos’s life and personality on to the company he built, showing...
...This is reflected in the home next door to Campbell’s, which is down a stone path and surrounded by pine and birch trees....
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