UNESCO Eyes Vast Hylean Amazon For Development
International effort led by UNESCO and Brazil explores the 2,060,000 square mile Hylean Amazon as a site for social and economic progress. IIHEA coordinates surveys in Brazil Peru and surrounding territories to map resources, peoples, and potential industries including forestry, agriculture, and pharmacology.
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Lake Success
South America
Amazon
United Nations Educational
Europe
United States
United Kingdom
Andes
Orinoco River
Bolivia
Brazil
Peru
Ecuador
Colombia
Venezuela
Guinenas
France
Netherlands
Sitain
Train
Amazonia
International Institute of the
Columbia
Hobart
Aly
Ecaudor
French Guiana
Unesco
James Torres Bader
Mexico
ILHA
Grand Deception: $2 Billion Beauty Bill in U S
Feature discusses immense annual spending on beauty products and devices in the United States. It envisions a world where women have to live with natural faces and figures if the industry’s devices and procedures were removed.
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U. S
Unfit to Eat Standards Spark Overseas Debate
A U S House inquiry examines if American food and drug law should require U S manufacturers to meet domestic quality for goods shipped abroad. Critics warn such rules could force dumping of edible cans while supporters cite consumer protection. The debate also touches cosmetic and beauty industry impacts.
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van Zandt
H. T. Apstein
National Cankers” Association
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Frozen Eggs For Britain
London reports that under the Marshall Plan Britain will import 10,000,000 pounds of frozen eggs and 40,000 tons of dried fruit from the United States. The Ministry of Food says frozen eggs will be distributed to bakers and manufacturers and dried fruit to households, equaling about two pounds per person. A London mother notes her children have seldom had cake for tea due to wartime shortages.
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London
WINNS
United States
England
America
Ministry of Food
Pamela Grainger
Timely Advice Dont Marry While Visiting Paris
Roxane Pollock cautions American travelers in Paris not to marry there despite enjoying the boulevards, bistros, wine, and regional dishes. She urges savoring romance while avoiding commitments abroad.
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Paris
France
New World Map Updates Europe Near East Boundaries
A National Geographic Society wall chart revised to reflect boundaries as of April 1 1949 shows wartime treaty changes with Italy Finland Hungary Romania and Bulgaria. It marks German eastern borders occupation zones and Palestine partition into Jewish and Arab states among others.
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Washington
Europe
Near East
National Geographic Society
National Geographic Magazine
Italy
Finland
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Germany
Russia
Poland
United States
Austria
Palestine
Iceland
Ireland
Syria
Lebanon
Acoustics- Builders Seek Apartment Noise Remedy
At the 20th anniversary of the Acoustical Society of America Dr. Leo L Beranek urged lower cost acoustical comfort in housing and noted that England Holland and Spain lead in quiet projects. He cited an MIT study of a New England housing project where back to back medicine cabinets allowed noise through and called for lighter weight wall materials to cut sound transfer.
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New York
WNNS
Acoustical Society of America
Leo L. Beranek
Ase Custics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
England
Holland
Spain
Beranek
New England
Pease
Tropical Islands Hit by Real Estate Boom in Bahamas
Nassau, Bahamas, draws American and British investors as island properties range from 100 per acre to 5000 for full islands. The boom, sparked after 1945, spreads from Nassau to remote Abaco islands, boosting regional prosperity and offering tax advantages and easy access from Miami.
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Nassau
Bahamas
CPI
Florida
Abaco
Britain
Refugee influx threats Western Germany stability
American and German officials warn 000,000 refugees in the Western occupation zone are politically volatile. They fear nationalist sentiment and potential Hitler style demagoguery as unemployed refugees resent Communists and long for lost homes in Czechoslovakia Poland East Prussia and Hungary.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Europe
Czechoslovakia
Poland
East Prussia
Hungary
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Corset and Brassiere Association
Berlin
Mann
Roxane Pollock
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