Britain Plans To Develop Her Tourist Trade
Britain outlines a measured postwar tourism recovery with restraint and improved services. Hotels and housing are rebuilt on austerity limits while hospitality aims for better meals, plainer plumbing, and steadier pace. The British Travel Association seeks overseas members, many from the United States and Canada, after offering honorary service member memberships.
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Great Britain
Britain
England
British Travel Association
United States
Canada
Frilly Fashion Returns to British Womenswear
Frills and trimming will reappear in British women’s clothing as austerity rules ease. Autumn or winter deliveries are expected. Price-controlled coats gowns and frocks will rise about 15 percent due to extra work on non austerity styles. Underwear restrictions are lifted though lace remains unavailable for home use.
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London
Need Coat of Paint
Britain shows widespread worn paint on stores homes offices and stations signaling austerity. Basil Dean notes paint was wartime drafted and is only slowly demobilized with limited glossy shades available while painters shift to new building work.
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Britain
Basil Dean
Vancouver
Waste Paper Wasted
Britain burns 100000 tons of waste paper annually while Finland and Sweden are asked to ship more to Britain. J C Dawes, Board of Trade director of Salvage, spoke in Bristol.
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Death of a Hero Revealed to Ontario Mother
Flying Officer Rey Carter of Burketon Ontario was captured after his plane was downed and shot by the German gestapo. Letters from Holland reveal the young airman’s fate as a tragic war loss.
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Old Custom Duke Demands Rent From King On Waterloo Anniversary
The Duke of Wellington asks the King to pay rent tied to an annual silk banner presented on the Waterloo anniversary. The family holds the Hampshire estate of Strathfield Fay. The First Duke received Strathfield Fay after Waterloo and each year the Duke presents a small tri color to the King. A similar rent is paid by the Duke of Marlborough for Blenheim Palace on the Blenheim anniversary.
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Strathfield
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Blenheim Palace
Blenheim
Tiny baby conquers diseases in Mobile
In Mobile Alabama the 1943 incubator baby Ronald Reagan Moore, once a 13 inch two pound infant, has grown into a normal two year old weighing 25 pounds. After two years of medical battles against several diseases he now stands at a normal height for his age.
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Silk returns to Canadian market with limited use
Horace Boivin of the Silk Association of Canada notes raw silk will reenter Canada but with a restricted field and high prices. The piece also describes tuna fishing up Oregon coast using planes to locate schools and relay exact spots to packing plants for the June season.
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Horace Boivin
Silk Association of Canada
Montreal
Mr. Boivin
Peru researchers unveil 51 new sea creatures discovery
Scientists report 51 previously unknown species found in shore waters of Peru. Among them is an unusual "elephant fish" with a leaf shaped flexible trunk. The discovery expands knowledge of marine biodiversity in the region.
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Peru
Viscount Mountbatten Receives Lords Seat in Birthday Honors
Lord Louis Mountbatten, once Allied supreme commander in Southeast Asia, gains a seat in the House of Lords in the king's birthday honors. Cousin to the king, his former title was a courtesy title as younger son of the Marquess of Milford Haven.
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Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
House of Lords
Louis
Marquess
Milford Haven
Mountbatten
Still Has Visitors Geneva League of Nations Empty World Capital
The League of Nations once aimed to unite nations on Lake Geneva now stands as a deserted village with a single peacock symbolizing its failure. Hundreds of visitors still walk its empty halls though the dream faded before World War II. upkeep once cost 2 500 000 annually.
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League of Nations
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League
UN Moves to World’s Fair Grounds Site in New York
The United Nations general assembly will relocate to Flush ing Meadow Park in September occupying part of the old 1,200 acre fair grounds. New York City Building and surrounding areas are being prepared at a cost over 1 million dollars with the UN spending 300 thousand on equipment. The former skating rinks will be converted into an auditorium for over 2,000 spectators with spaces for committees, lounges, and media facilities.
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New York
World of Tomorrow
United Nations General Assembly
Flushing Meadow Park
United Nations
U.N
New York City
Constitution Mall
Lagoon of Nations
Court of Peace
League of Nations
Britain Sets Remembrance Day for November 10 Observance
Prime Minister Attlee announced in the House of Commons that Remembrance Day will be observed on Sunday November 10 this year to honor the dead of the two world wars. The King will unveil at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, with Remembrance Sunday set the Sunday before November 11 and the cenotaph dates extended to include 1939-1945.
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Attlee
House of Commons
Whitehall
If 19 Percent Of Home Accidents Happen In The Yard
The feature notes that about nineteen percent of home accidents occur in yards outside the house. It also cites a four year drop in appendicitis deaths by roughly forty percent in the United States from 1940 to 1943. It mentions oranges reaching Europe from China by Portuguese in 1547 and odds against being struck by lightning in temperate zones as 1,200,000 to 1. It adds that snowflakes hitting a fast moving plane can create static interference with radio reception.
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