... A DRAMATIC MOMENT IN THE HALF-DARKENED LECTURE THEATRE OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION Dr. P. Dunsheath points out to his young audience the operation of a machine which registers and measures heart-beats on a cardiagraph, the pulsations being manifested by electrical sparking in full view of the audience. This was one of many highlights as Dr. Dunsheath began the 120th course I ui J i A icciu co ...

... 1 THE RE-EMERGENCE OF VITTORIO EMMANUELE ORLANDO The dis tinguished Italian elder Statesman, who will be ninety years old next March, shaking hands with Signor Luigi Einaudi, the Italian President. Signor Orlando has just been elected by general acclamation to the Presidency of the Italian National Press Federation, a body incorporating the representatives of the major Italian newspapers and ...

... 780,000 SQ. FT. OF TILES Workmen put the finishing touches on a completed section of the new Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. New York City's 80,000,000-dollar, 9,117 ft.-long tunnel, the largest ever built in the United States, is due to be finished by the late spring. Hie clay tiles were chosen because they are clear, easy to maintain, and will diffuse light effici ently for the 16,000,000 motorists ...

... The question of the repatriation of Japanese prisoners of war is arousing the deepest feeling in Japan, and with each passing month it becomes increasingly apparent that the Russians have no intention of sending back to their homeland those who do not preach the Communist doctrine. On December 21 there was a crisis in the Four-Power Allied Council when General Dervyanko openly denounced what ...

... I BUILDING THE BIGGEST DOME IN THE WORLD A general view of the construction work on the great aluminium Dome of Discovery, the central feature of the upstream sequence of the Festival of Britain. I n A ffVOaF nrrr\A Qs It J IS jicai UUIIIV,, SJ II. 111511 anu 365 ft. in diameter, will be made of aluminium a material as typical of the age as was the sheet glass and cast iron of a hundred years ...

... BEST TIMES TO LIVE IN.-- There is a proverb which asserts that a live dog is better than a dead lion-- in short, that life is a boon at all times. The proverb may be true on the short view. The lions of past eras in England were assuredly the landed proprietors before the industrial and economic earthquakes. To-day. such proprietors are certainly not so favoured. They might call their lives ...

... In 1946 Mr. Clint McDade, the Tennessee orchid-grower, visited this country to buy the Armstrong and Brown collection of orchids at Tunbridge Wells. British orchids, he declared, are the best in the world, and he showed his belief in them by spending £17,500 on buying pedigree stock during his stay. To day British orchids are still in demand and are, indeed, dollar- earners. They are sent ...

... JANUARY I, 1950-- LONDON CHEERS AS THE TWENTIETH CENTURY REACHES ITS HALF-WAY MARK; THE VAST CROWD ROUND THE BOARDED-UP STATUE OF EROS IN PICCADILLY CIRCUS A FEW MOMENTS AFTER THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT Tens of thousands of people invaded the West End to witness the passing of 1949 and to greet 1950. Trafalgar Square was similarly thronged, and in the City there was the usual great gathering round ...

... I, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Fifty-fifty.-- I keep on say ing to myself fifty fifty, and already the exercise is bearing fruit on my cheques and letter headings I have scratched out 1949 only three of four times. There is virtue in even numbers, although I admit most proverbs are contradicted by others. trill 1 undoubtedly there is something very satisfactory and neat about the figure 50, ...

... As the petrol engine took over more and more of streets, so the horse became an increasingly rare in London. Apart from the 5,000 slow-moving van he mostly owned by British Railways and already banned many of London's busiest streets-- the horse and rider, team of horses drawing a coach, is an unusual sight in to-day. Occasionally a stage coach is seen in London, or more a rider in the ...

... ic Quaint Ideas from a Bygone Age The disguised tram that could not frighten horses. Boston, U.S.A. but it' s always a good idea to have a HENNESST COGNAC BRANDY January To each and every one of hundreds of thousands of customers at home and abroad the Midland Bank sends greetings and best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year. Ml It LAND BANK LIMITED Preservatlv el Wherever Timber is ...

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