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Dig for victory

... Dig for victory Britain's farmworkers will submit a claim for £BO a week for a 35-hour week by next January, an M P said yesterday. Miss Jo an Maynard, Labour M P for Sheffield, Brightside, said at Darlington, that the demand by her sponsoring union, ...

Published: Monday 03 July 1978
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 97 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Dig for victory

... Dig for victory Miners in the National Coal Board's Western Area have set a new coal face productivity record of 13.12 tonnes per man per shift. The Western Area has 21 collieries employing 23.600 men in Lancashire, Stafford- ...

Published: Wednesday 29 August 1979
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 38 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

EVENING MAIL FRIDAY AUGUST 9 1996 23 Children dig So victory Charity man CHILDREN are digging in at Har- marrows

... EVENING MAIL FRIDAY AUGUST 9 1996 23 Children dig So victory Charity man CHILDREN are digging in at Har- marrows and cabbages on a disused borne Lane allotments thanks to a sit city council scheme to catch to- Now the youngsters are to show off morrow’s ...

Published: Friday 09 August 1996
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 885 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

fireguards to

... council house built in future. Members dig for survival CUrmingham Pest I :olih ull Staff allotment holders • of Rectory Farm, Bbekion, Birmingham, stood by their plots with spades at the ready last night to dig for victory. They are fighting a notice to quit ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 1966
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 237 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

. . . details of how to

... of his contribution to Britain's wartime Dig for Victory campaign. Gentle smile As he sees it, it was his job and all he did was do But he does permit himself a gentle smile as he agrees that the disciples of dig never suspected that their weekly instructions ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1968
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 691 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

From Russia with

... his contribution to Britain's wartime Dig for Victory campaign. Gentle smile As he sees it, it was his Job and all he did was do it But he does permit himself a gentle smile as he ,agrees that the disciples of dig never suspected that their weekly instructions ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1968
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 688 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

History is rooted farm mechanisation

... continued separately but parallel. During the Second World War the company's experience and resources were mobilised in the Dig for Victory campaign and large numbers of machines for land clearance and drainage were manufactured. The fleet of steam rollers ...

Published: Monday 02 December 1974
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 331 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

ACROSS 6 It shoats that someone wants to know acingthtnit 413) 8 without there would be no marzipan II Tell

... ACROSS 6 It shoats that someone wants to know acingthtnit 413) 8 without there would be no marzipan II Tell them to dig for victory and they might give you black looks! t6l 10 A relay change 13 One of 150 found In the Bible (5► 15 Lacking in solidity ...

Published: Monday 16 July 1951
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 328 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MR. EDEN'S SMILE

... country in the world. This is largely due no doubt to the stimulus of war-time conditions, in which those who did not dig for victory could not expect to find many potatoes on their plate. But, although our food situation today has been officially computed ...

Published: Tuesday 09 September 1952
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 506 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Propaganda to publicity

... Information: it was one of those things to be put up with in war time, like rationing and Woolson pie. They told us to dig for victory and that careless talk cost lives. They even told us not to talk about the war. and cited the awful examples of Mr. Secrecy ...

Published: Thursday 05 April 1979
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 495 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WENDY COOPER to floiy

... circumstances, re the possibilities than the war intervened and the newly laid turf was rooted up again to make room for Dig for Victory potatoes. After the war he found time, among all his other activities, to grapple with this interesting problem of making ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1968
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 528 | Page: 38 | Tags: none