Britain Aims to Grow Tourist Trade With Reforms
Postwar Britain plans to boost tourism by improving food and housing, upgrading hotel beds, and raising hospitality standards. Hoteliers unite under the British Travel Association to promote accommodations, meals, and amenities to overseas visitors, aided by honorary membership offers to wartime service personnel.
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Britain
England
British Travel Association
United States
Canada
Frilly fashions return as Britain lifts wartime limits
British women may soon see frills pockets and buttons return to garments as austerity rules ease. Autumn or winter deliveries face price rises about 15 percent due to extra work on non austerity styles. Underwear restrictions ease but lace remains unavailable for home market.
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London
Coat of Paint Needed Across Britain
Basil Dean notes in the Vancouver Province that Britain’s paintwork is blistered and pockmarked, signaling austerity. Paint was wartime drafted and is now being demobilized, with glossy colors limited in stores. Painters have moved to new building projects, making small redecorating work scarce.
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Britain
Basil Dean
Vancouver
Britain urges Nordic paper shipments amid waste surplus
J. C. Dawes of the Board of Trade Salvage division said Britain burns about 100000 tons of waste paper annually. He urged Finland and Sweden to send more waste paper to Britain to help meet demand.
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Bristol
Eng
Britain
Finland
Sweden
J. C. Dawes
Board of Trade
Rent and banners mark royal duties at Wellington estates
The Duke of Wellington asks the King to pay his rent while a silk banner is annually presented on the anniversary of Waterloo. The family holds the Hampshire estate of Strathfield Fay for the First Duke after Waterloo, and the Duke hands over a small tri-color yearly. Marlborough pays similar rent for Blenheim Palace on the anniversary of Bienheim.
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Waterloo
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Strathfield
Duke of Marlborough
Blenheim Palace
Bienheim
Tiny baby conquers diseases in Mobile in 1943
Ronald Regan Moore, the so called incubator baby of Mobile Alabama born weighing two pounds eleven ounces, has grown to a normal child two years and four months old. He now weighs twenty five pounds and is of normal height for his age.
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Mobile
Ala
Ronald Regan Moore
Raw silk may return to Canadian market with limited use
Horace Boivin of the Silk Association of Canada says raw silk will likely rejoin the market but the field for its use remains limited and prices will stay high. He notes raw silk currently runs about four times pre war levels and silk goods must reflect that.
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Horace Boivin
Silk Association of Canada
Montreal
Mr. Boivin
Peru finds 51 new sea creatures including leaf-trunked elephant fish
Scientists report the discovery of 51 previously unknown species off Peru's shore. Among them is an elephant fish with a flexible trunk resembling a leaf. The findings expand the known marine biodiversity of the region.
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Peru
Planes Aid Tuna Fleet Off Oregon Coast
Fishing firms will use airplanes from a local airport to locate albacore schools near Oregon. Pilots will spot the schools and radio the packing plants, which then inform the fleet of the exact locations as the June run begins.
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Oregon
Viscount Mountbatten Given Lords Seat in Birthday Honors
Lord Louis Mountbatten, once Allied supreme commander in Southeast Asia, is created a viscount and granted a seat in the House of Lords. He is the king's cousin and younger son of the Marquess of Milford Haven. the title replaces his former courtesy title.
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Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
House of Lords
Louis
Marquess
Milford Haven
Mountbatten
Still Has Visitors Geneva League of Nations Empty After 10 Million
The League of Nations, once a beacon of international unity at Geneva, now stands as a vacant symbol amid decaying halls. An ongoing maintenance bill of 2.5 million dollars yearly during the war years kept the site orderly, while today only about 300 visitors still walk its empty corridors.
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Geneva
League of Nations
Lake Geneva
U N Moves U N to New York Fair Grounds Site
The United Nations General Assembly will relocate to Flush ing Meadow Park in September using the old world’s fair grounds as its interim home. Crews convert the New York City Building and surrounding area into an auditorium for 2000, with the skating rinks repurposed for committee rooms 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
Telephone Company
Remembrance Day Observed In Britain On Nov 10
Prime Minister Attlee announced in the House of Commons that Sunday November 10 would be Remembrance Day for deaths in both world wars. The King will unveil at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Remembrance Sunday will be the Sunday before November 11, with 11 am national observance and two minutes of silence.
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Britain
London
Attlee
House of Commons
Whitehall
Items Of Interest And Historical Facts
A compact compendium notes that about 19 percent of home accidents occur in yards outside the house. It records a 1940 to 1943 decline of nearly 40 percent in the U.S. appendicitis death rate. It mentions oranges entering Europe from China by Portuguese in 1547. It estimates odds of being struck by lightning in temperate zones at 1 200 000 to 1. It adds that snowflakes hitting a fast moving plane can create static electricity disrupting radio reception.
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