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Fame Awaits These Places

... By Ferdinand Tuohy CROYDON. is quite a place, but would be unknown to the world at large if an open segment of it had not been brought to life as London's first great air terminal. In the sequel, a Croydon becomes common inter national currency for a major airport. To-day, on the eve of the Air Age, a score or more of future Croydoris stand indicated on the map of both hemispheres and it ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1585 | Page: Page 18, 70 | Tags: Photographs 

A Letter For Jennifer

... A Good 3Maity Women Came and W eat in the Book of Bip Battigan, but only Two 3. Mattered By Arthur Gordon PROBABLY he will never tell this story, even after the war is over and he has gone home and married the girl. Why should he? It's his story and Jennifer's, not yours or mine. But if he ever should tell it, chances are he would begin with that grey afternoon after the Bremen raid, when he ...

No EASY STREET

... Hi whuii This, ho liopt', is the future address of every woman who by hard work and fine endurance throughout the days of war has won the rig-hf to live at ease in the days of peace. ASK the average woman to describe her ideal house of the future and it is fairly certain that her requirements will be comparatively simple. Some women may ex press a yearning for visionary palaces, but most ask ...

Article

... TURKISH COFFEE The coffee used for this brew is the same as breakfast coffee, but much more finely ground. It is impossible, as far as I know, to get it in tins, and when you buy it you must 'ask for Turkish Coffee, for you can't make it unless it is properly powdered. Get it fresh, too, as often as you can. Pour into a saucepan 9 coffee cupfuls of cold water, 9 heaped teaspoonfuls of coffee ...

PADMORE & BARNES LTD

... PADMORE BARNES LTD., PADMORE BARNES LTD., £ew/ce; Honestly, it may be difficult to tell the difference between Moccasin Shoes and any other good looking shoes. But when you come to wear Moccasin, then you realise their hidden merits. Their secret ser vice is in the making. Good leather is only one of the reasons why they keep their shape and com fort so long. Cutting and stitching and every ...

SINGER MOTORS LIMITED

... 1 THE PASSAGE OF THE YEARS There was a time when this tive and useful, for it is not until 15-h.p. Singer was the very latest 1938 (when you might have thing in horseless carriages and an thought her life had ended) that object of some considerable pride wehearofhernext.Notasaprized to her owner. That was in 1907. museum exhibit but bowlingalong For the next thirty years we must the high roads ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 158 | Page: Page 63 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 157 | Page: Page 71 | Tags: Photographs 

IMPERIAL LEATHER

... THE MASTER TOUCH The dress illustrated was created by Norman Hartnell from his own exclusive print. Posed by Mrs. Robert Nesbitt. Imperial Leather Toilet Soap created by Cussons. TOILET SOAPS CREATED FOR THE DISCRIMINATING BY CtlSSOTlS OF MANCHESTER ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 42 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

Old Tales Re-told

... He leaped T he ^Whirlwind How a Small River in North America Got its Peculiar N ame Written and Illustrated By F. Matania, r.i. CRAZY-WOMAN'S FORK is the name of a tributary of the Powder River in the State of Oregon, North America. This particular tributary had been originally named by the Red Indians Big Beard, after a kind of plant which grew along its banks. But later on a dramatic ...

Salt Sense

... CHECK up on your salt consumption. You will most likely find that you don't even bother to taste your food to test its salt content before taking a helping of salt. It is not good for the body to have too much salt. There are certain physical conditions in which it is best if salt is eliminated completely from the diet. This does not mean that you will have a salt-free diet rather that you ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 418 | Page: Page 41 | Tags: Photographs 

Make Yourself These String Slippers: MATERIALS REQUIRED

... Make Yourself These l^ippers MATERIALS REQUIRED 1 crochet hook, 1 pair of cork soles and another pair of fleece-lined; 2 balls of green glacé string and 1 ball of yellow is sufficient for the tops of 2 pairs; 1 ball of ordinary white string makes soles for two pairs of shoes. The pattern is for a size 5. Coloured stripes are introduced at regular intervals by changing to alternative coloured ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 564 | Page: Page 42, 69 | Tags: Photographs