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... into. He spent many years in India, and in 1830 gained his majority for gallantry at Mirah Shah in a North-West Frontier engagement. In the Afghan Campaign he gained the D.S.O. in 1839 and four years later was made full colonel for his part in the Sind ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3769 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

Pay-Off For Inventors

... Pay-Off For Inventors By Guy Livingston SITTING in a room in Somerset House, London, seven men have been engaged since 1946 in a little-publicized, highly important and infinitely complex task. They are the members of the Royal Commission on Awards to ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1404 | Page: 72 | Tags: Photographs 

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CLASSIC MYSTERY OF THE MARY CELESTE

... safely into wind quay, but neither Briggs nor Hullock succeeded in finding a new crew. At last, in sheer desperation, Briggs engaged a master-porter, who, with a gang, loaded the little ship until her deck was clear of the water only by 3 inches Astern of ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2686 | Page: 74 | Tags: Illustrations 

( RV I MM ‘TERRIFYING BOGY’ REMOVED ! IS SCOTCH MISSED By Borg Mid Labour control modifications described by ..

... industries Miners and farm-workers are now free to leave their work providing they conform to the requirements of the Control of Engagement Order This puts them on the same level as workers in other key industries According to experts the Ministry of Labour's ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1678 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Opera Singer

... Isle of Capri, whose beauty and romance are not one whit exaggerated in literature and song. I was resting there between engagements at the Opera in Milan, Venice, and Rome. As a contralto-mezzo, 28 years of age. I had already made an International reputation ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 139 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

What About Us?

... everything there was to tell. He spoke stiffly, sullenly. his gaze OM fixed upon the floor. Long before you came back I was engaged to Isabel Waldie. And now I'M going to marry her. But what about you and me, Davie? We've always belonged to each other ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 635 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

By Jean W. Roper

... less) and shall never be too busy to condole with my friends in sorrow or disappointment, or congratulate them when they get engaged, pass an examination or have a baby. Besides this, I shall look out all those old letters hidden away at the back of my w ...

WHITE HOPES OF RADIO IN 1950

... to us. THE CURE FOR LOVE (Odeon, Leicester -so ). Robert Donal, In a comedy about Lancashire folk, Is a returned soldier engaged to one girl Was falls for another. My guess is that every girl in the land will now fall for Robert. He directed the picture ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: The People
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 710 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Hogmanay By Jean W. Roper

... allowed to come to our Hogmanay party as she could not bear to see in the New Year all by herself. She had recently become engaged to a fine young man (who was not then in the country) and sported a flashing diamond ring. A lover of exercise, she had walked ...

£10 To £30 A Week For Part-Time Plums

... created in nationalised industries. Salaries range from £5OO to £l5OO a year. Examples are: One part-time member of 8.0.A.C., engaged on special duties, gets £l5OO. Three part-time members of 8.0.A.C. each get £5OO a year. . Two part-time members of B.E.A ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Sunday Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 190 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Sir i&uitbap TELEPHONE: 8461 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Inland Abroad: 3s 3d per quarter 13s per annum Airmail: Rates ..

... lid towels for 6Jd children’s umbrellas for Is 2id cigars at a penny each “silver watch es for madame” for half a guinea engagement rings at 7s 6d dolls at sixpence overcoats for hubby as cheap as 30s And so on For young couples thinking of setting uja ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2441 | Page: 6 | Tags: none