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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Mar 24, 1949
Page
9
Two Johns Hopkins physicians announce Dramamine as a promising seasickness cure after trials on soldiers bound for Germany. The drug developed by G D Searle showed about 98 percent success in preventing and curing seasickness with minimal dizziness.
Dan Dailey signs with Coles Brothers to perform on an elephant platform with two Fox writers to craft a circus yarn after his movie return. Glenda Raymond, 26, heads to London for Immortal Hour at the People's Palace with the London Philharmonic. she plays Gwen Frangcon Davies. Nellie Arno takes the revolting makeup role in Orson Welles Third Man. Lana Turner and Spencer Tracy depart for Peru for The Crisis location work. Bob Crosby challenges Bing to charity golf matches. Dorothy Lamour, expecting a baby in September, will retire after finishing a film at RKO with Kay Kyser. MGM and Paramount executives visit Hollywood amid a movie crisis with star showcases. Loretta Young heads to Hawaii with Ted Lew after Mother Is a Fresimed Lewis to the Stable.
A triangular Berlin patch near Potsdamer Platz sits between Soviet American and British zones. Unpoliced by both sides, it serves a black market, cigarette trade hub with a small department store receiving cross‑zone supplies from both sides.
Harvard scientists Williams Schevill and Barbara Lawrence used a hydrophone in Canadian waters to study white whales and porpoises. They catalogued noises as apelike clucks, mews, chirps, and occasional trills resembling an orchestra tuning up.
Richer or For Richer or For Richer or Richer in Forest Hill advertises a 29 year old, six foot tall engineering graduate and film writer seeking a wife willing to furnish 15000 dollars. He offers himself in marriage after retreating into seclusion and leaves friend Leslie Langlois to answer inquiries via a Beverly Hills post office box.
Roland Adams says Britain charged him import duty and sales tax on a lion he shot in Kenya. He must pay £11 10s before the cured head and skin can enter the country. Adams notes he did not buy the lion and questions the tax on the skin.
The article claims SETROL driven vehicles in the US produce over 17.8 billion gallons of water annually as a by product of fuel combustion. Water emerges from exhaust as vapor or condensation. enough white water is claimed to fill a canal six feet deep and 26 feet wide from Sydney to Perth.
The US Bureau of Mines works with the building industry to push domestic clays for durable concrete aggregates. Tuscaloosa Alabama research notes bloating clays that expand when heated to a specific temperature.
President Miguel Aleman pursues irrigation and electrification to curb soil loss and boost food production. Financial shortages slow the program as fears grow of large areas turning to dust bowls.
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