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SPARKLE AND SHADOW IN THE CARIBBEAN: The Need for International Co-operation Among the Islands

... the British Caribbean colonies, and the problem has been rendered still more difficult by backsliding on the part of Jamaica or, better said, of its Mr. Busta- mente (formerly Clark). Here we come up with a cardjnal obstruction to Caribbean co-operation ...

Published: Saturday 05 March 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1845 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

STORMING VIEQUES ISLAND: American Troops Stage a Spectacular Amphibious Exercise in the Caribbean

... of Vieques, a sun-baked island just east of Puerto Rico, they brought to a climax a week of spectacular manoeuvres in the Caribbean designed essentially to show in what measure the danger of atom-bomb attack affects the conduct of vast amphibious operations ...

Published: Saturday 19 March 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 533 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

NEW LIFE FOR THE BLIMP: NOW A CARRIER-BASED WEAPON OF WAR

... WARFARE A blimp descending to the flight-deck of the United States escort ci. :er Sicily during recent naval exercises in the Caribbean in which it was demonstrated that the blimp's range and usefulness could be vastly K- increased. The blimp descended twice ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 189 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

Priscilla in Paris: The Battle of the Styles

... production of M. Curzio Malaparte's Das Kapital at the Theatre de Paris, where for the last three months Katherine Dunham's Caribbean Rhapsody has played to crowded houses. It seems strange to see a German title sprawling across the hoardings of this city ...

Published: Wednesday 16 February 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 983 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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