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... GERMANY MISSING POLISH-JEWS TURN UP IN BERLIN'S AMERICAN ZONE after disappearing from the Russian Zone, following the threat to send them to the Russian camp at Prenzlau. The Americans immediately arranged for their billeting A HAVEN FOR WANDERERS Polish Jews being registered and issued with food, billeting and blanket cards, on arrival in the American Zone of Berlin. On pages 1 14-15 of this ...
... RISEN ON THE SCENE OF A GREAT CONFLICT This group of new classroom buildings has been erected at University City, on the outskirts of Madrid, to take the place of those destroyed during the Civil War, when the University area was in the front line for over a year UNIVERSITY CITY COMES BACK TO LIFE The battle-scarred Agricultural College (on left) is now undergoing repairs, while the Faculty of ...
... AS soon as a modern world war stops, Man proceeds to run over his weapons, discarding some and entering up others, novelties, in his armoury, which has the parallel effect of altering the constitution of the armed forces. In 1919 the great newcomers were the aeroplane and the tank, and these in due course combined to produce the revolutionary blitz warfare that had been foreseen. Now, in 1946, ...
... With a million people on strike, the industrial position in the United States was the subject of world concern last week, and although the telephone workers eventu ally went back pending further negotiations, the meat, electrical and motor industries continued to be vitally affected. Fears of a meat famine following the nation wide strike of 300,000 packers, led to a run on butchers' shops, ...
... THE ITALIAN BLACK MARKET IN ACTION Half-a-mile out in Naples Bay the illicit traders bring their boats alongside the Liberty ship James H. Kimball. The black marketeers find it highly profitable to waylay incoming vessels, and by means of a bucket and rope money and goods are exchanged between ship and rowing-boat. Cigarettes bought from crew or passengers at 50s. the carton will fetch as ...
... This has been a wild winter on the high seas, and from both the North and South Atlantic Oceans have come strange tales of gales and tempests of shattering force. One of the latest victims is the Portu guese schooner Cidade do Porto, which during December was bound from Lourenco Marques, Portuguese East Africa, with I 5,500 tons of coal for Lobito Bay, I Angola, the journey taking her through ...
... HE HARRIS TWEED ASSOCIATION LTD. jj r $0 1 hey are the home of H1IERI TWIflfll ■zzsz-fu For generations the making of Harris Iweed has been the pride and chief industry of the :3S5!J> JbSF men and women of these Islands. The matchless texture of Harris Tweed (of virgin Scottish wool), its great durability, its variety of design and colour, continue to find increasing fame c, HiTl IK See the ...
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... Aniroth, a little village of Pembrokeshire, is spoken of in Wales as the doomed village, for it is in danger of being utterly wiped out by the sea. More than 200 yards of sea-wall have been washed away, and the recent gales have almost finished the defences. Only a few feet remain of a road which ran from the village down to the sea. Many villagers have had narrow escapes from the fury of the ...
... It appears that Alsatian dogs are now to a certain degree replacing the famous St. Bernard breed for rescue work in the Swiss Alps. Dogs, demobilised by the Swiss Army, have been taken over by the Swiss Alpine Club and are receiving a refresher course with rescue squads in the work of retrieving victims buried under avalanches. After locating victims by scent, the dogs are trained to assist in ...
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... I It was only fitting that I Paris should celebrate the I fiftieth anniversary of the cinema, for it was as long ago as 1883 that the Parisian, E. J. Marey, established a studio for investigating the motion of animals by employing batteries of cameras, and seven years later it was he who first saw the full possibilities of the celluloid roll film. To mark the fiftieth anni versary of the first ...