Smuggling Watch Beefs Up on British Coasts
A Waterguard report details coastal contraband seizures and smuggling methods. Officers at Vintry House train recruits using real captures showing watches, perfume, champagne, and jewelry hidden in luggage, with emphasis on psychology and detection skills.
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Britao
Britain
Waterguard
Oman
Wich
Bristol
Salford
Belfast
Midland
St Croydon
Vintry House
Saulthwerk — Bridge
London
Pas
Tong Service
Taulk
Training new Waterguard officers in a modern smuggling fight
London division trains recruits at the Cur toma museum and Waterguard training centre. Seaborne and air port operations, including Gravesend launches and Heathrow, illustrate modern rummaging techniques. Cadets learn to balance search power with public service while using historical smuggling cases as teaching aids.
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Erin
Eely
Curtoma Museum
City Gate House
Finsbury Square
Waterguard
Tilbury
Gravesend
London
Norkyard 4
Medway
Thames
Heathaw
Croydon
Northalt
Airfeld
Air Trami
Heathrow
Simplifying Aircraft Cockpit Controls Aims to Cut Pilot Strain
Navy and Douglas Aircraft study simplifying cockpit controls to reduce pilot workload. Proposals include vertical readout instruments and unified indicators showing pitch, bank, and turn, with straight line readings to replace multiple gauges. The effort seeks safer, quicker readings and applies lessons from military to civilian aviation.
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United States’ Navy
Long Ieland
Lot de Florez
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
de Florez
US. Navy
Navy
Aviation Instrumentalia Bédene
Ruling by organized fear in Yugoslavia blamed on Communist control
Bogdan Radists, former chief of the Foreign Press Department in Belgrade, argues in Mercury that fear permeates Yugoslavia under Tito. He details street committees, street bosses, and compulsory meetings that suppress dissent, with arrests for collaboration and a propaganda system ensuring loyalty.
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New York
A.P
Bogdan Radists
Ministry of Information
Jugoslav
Marshal Tito
Mercury
Communist Party
World Health Organization Takes Over International Health Roles
A partial transcription notes UN RILA transfers of health activities to the WHO. It mentions Mr FP Le Guardia announcing to Washington that functions under the International Sanitary Conventions Council were turned over, with later approval of a second agreement. The text is fragmented and uncertain.
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Ove Munga
Var ‘Ous
UARAA
le Guardia
World Health Organisation
World Food Crisis Warns Nations to Ration Food
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization warned that a world food crisis remains and urged immediate food rations. It recommended conservation measures including flour rationing and using substitutes in bread making to avert hunger in Europe next spring and in the Orient.
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Washington
United Nations’ Food and Sxricultural Organization
All Nations
Europe
Orient
Petrol tax debate and future Australian fuel demand
The article discusses Australia's petrol needs under a new agreement for ten years, projecting a 20.6 percent rise to about 419.3 million gallons annually in four years. It notes Britain and New Zealand demand increases, current war-time tax revenues, and calls by motorist groups to keep petrol prices low while urging government action on high imposts.
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Om Party
Stalin
Lenin
Radista
Ministry of Information
Belrade
Redista
Boviet
Russia
New Democracy
Reeding Clubs
Australis
Great Britain
Australia
New Zealand
Commonwealth
Dunlop Bulletin
Britain aims £100 million plan to train scientists
A Parliamentary and Scientific Committee report to Britain's Chancellor proposes a £100 million expansion of university teaching facilities to raise fully qualified British scientists from about 3,000 to at least 90,000 within ten years. The plan prioritizes quality, calls for more university staff, expanded accommodation, and secondary education support, with government aid and manpower/material allocations.
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Britain
Oxford
Cambridge
London
Wes
Tt Us
Ted" Acheme
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Preventive Branch of Customs and
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Shannon
Ireland
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