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A FOREIGN NEWS SURVEY: Events Abroad as the Year Drew to a Close

... the town. The youths were driving a car they had stolen two hours previously in another Dart of the city BIDDING FOR THE CARIBBEAN TOURIST TRADE-- the OPENING OF THE NEW 7,000,000 DOLLAR CARIBE HILTON HOTEL AT SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO: On left and right- ...

Published: Saturday 24 December 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 982 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

TROUBLE OVER LANGSTONE and IDLEWILD: Two Airports Which Have Been the Cause of Controversy

... Nicaragua lie in the north-east, the most inaccessible part of the country and near the notorious mosquito coast on the Caribbean Sea ANOTHER IDEA FOR THE QUICK TAKE-OFF IN CRAMPED SURROUNDINGS The Northrop Pioneer seen on its maiden flight in California ...

Published: Saturday 11 January 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1115 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

A Fashion-Lord's Fancy

... Another of this year's fashion fancies are cotton and rayon frocks in Caribbean colours and patterns. Why? Because a ballet dancer came to Paris and made a hit with her Caribbean numbers and d£cor. The Paris designers, who often travel for inspiration ...

Published: Friday 01 April 1949
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1984 | Page: 72 | Tags: Photographs 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... directing Ole Olsen (JOHN WAYNE), captain of the Glencairn, a liritish tramp loaded with ammunition, has anchored off a Caribbean island. CARMEN MORALES is one of the bumboat girls who have brought on board a load of fruit and smuggled plenty of rum with ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1178 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

HOME NEWS IN PICTURES

... During the recent wa r he worked on the Lease-Lend programme and was one of the first British members of the Anglo-Aruerican Caribbean Commission, which took him sever?, times to the United States He was knighted in 1947 DEV ADDRESSES A MASS MEETING OF THE ...

Published: Saturday 04 December 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1130 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

FOREIGN NEWS IN PICTURES: A Survey of World Events

... I and 2. FLURRY IN THE CARIBBEAN: Lord Baldwin, Governor of the Leeward Islands, who returned to London earlier in the year to meet the Colonial Secretary, journeyed back to Antigua in the S.S. Barfleur, from Dieppe, and on arrival received a welcome ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1129 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

INDIA'S UNITED CHURCH

... the French Communist leaders and Soviet Russia and calling for a strong policy of alliance with the Western democracies A CARIBBEAN REVOLUTION NIPPED IN THE BUD Expeditionaries lined up at Camp Columbia, Cuba, after being intercepted off the Cuban coast ...

Published: Saturday 18 October 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1127 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

FROM TWO HEMISPHERES: NEWS FROM EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES

... be opened in December in time for the Christmas festivities. In all, there are 300 air-conditioned rooms BIDDING FOR THE CARIBBEAN TOURIST TRADE The ocean-front view of the Caribo Hilton Hotel at San Juan, Puerto Rico. The un usually-designed hotel will ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1036 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

AMERICA'S AIRCRAFT-CARRIERS: And her Sea-borne Fighter Aircraft

... integral part of the organisation. Another advantage enjoyed by the U.S. Navy is the fact that in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean Sea weather conditions for the greater part of the year are ideal for flying. It is not surprising, therefore, that American ...

Published: Saturday 07 March 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1269 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

The Bystander Bookshelf: The Prating Puritan

... preaching female Puritans on what, I suppose, was the seventeenth century's equivalent of a cruise a voyage on a slaver to the Caribbean. Her Ivory Coast owes a good deal to that saltv, sauce piquante picturesque which the Beggar's Opera and Mr. Rex Whistler ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1255 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

FROM LONDON and the PROVINCES: A Pictorial Survey of the Home News

... the island during the Napoleonic wars, exports water to Curacao, and when the tanker Glorana recently left London for the Caribbean she had on board 13,000 tons of the precious fluid. Curacao was discovered by Hojeda about 1499 and occupied by the Spaniards ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1247 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs