Britain Expects Half a Million Visitors This Year
Britain anticipates over 560000 tourists in 1948 with 130000 American visitors. Sir Alexander Maxwell, chairman of the British Tourist and Holidays Board, cites longer stays and extended seasons as travel expands postwar. Shipping capacity and new British Travel Centre in New York aid this growth.
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Britain
British Tourat and Holidays Board
Sir Alexander Maxwell
London
United States
U.S.A
British Commonwealth Countries
Moulison Avenue
New York
Hunter Valley Dairy Company Profit Declared for Year
The Hunter Valley Co operative Dairy Company Ltd reports a net profit of £50,505 for the year ended June 30, to be presented to shareholders on August 31. It plans to distribute £51,428 of profit to shareholders as 3d a tb of butter fat in milk and 1d a tb of butter in cream, with a balance to be converted into a new issue of shares. Output reached 1141 tons of butter and 1871 tons of milk products, with Muswellbrook Hexham Branxton factories receiving 16,323,030 gallons of milk amid morning and afternoon deliveries. sales total £2,004 06p.
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Hunter Valley Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd
Muswellbrook
Hexham
Branxton
Raymond Loewy Designs and the Man Behind Them
The Read ers Digest profile on Raymond Loewy from Life highlights a four man partnership with offices in the United States Brazil and London. Kobler notes Loewy has designed hundreds of products for more than 300 clients from cholera pills to streamlined auto bodies and even cigarettes and milk cans.
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Raymond Loewy
Fourman
United States
Brazil
London
Loewy
John Kob Jer Mys
Kobler
War veteran Loewy decorated with Croix de Guerre
The article notes private turned captain Loewy, who served in World War II, cutting his own uniform and decorating his dugout with parachute material. He earned seven decorations, including the Croix de Guerre, evidencing his distinction as a soldier.
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Loewy
Paria
Time constraints for Advocate copy still in effect
The notice outlines deadlines for bus connections and Advocate printing on Tuesday and Friday mornings. Copy must be submitted by midday on Mondays and Thursdays. Ongoing high volume of submissions on publication mornings forces us to dismiss contributors who miss the deadlines.
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Advocate
Contriputora
Mental Hospital Life in The Snake Pit Digest
A Reader's Digest summary of Mary Jane Ward's The Snake Pit outlines a woman's nervous breakdown inside a U S mental hospital. It tracks her long confinement recovery and ward changes, portraying patients and medical staff, and notes the book's literary impact and its film adaptation starring Olivia de Havilland.
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Mary Jane Ward
Snake Pit
Ward
Ooth
20Th Century Fox
Olivia de Haviland
A Wedding Report With a Droll Twist
A satirical wedding vignette mocks wedding prose with a Kansas humorist. The bride is described with flowery phrases, then the scene pivots to a punchline as the bride’s dainty slipper spills a Lily, prompting the quip that follows at the altar. The piece lampoons sentimentality in local society reporting.
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Kansas
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