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The Way Of The Tides

... their homes, completed the terror of the scene, and only the roar of the advancing wave put an end to them at last. GENERALLY speaking, however, Eng land's tidal phenomena are of a less dramatic kind, and among them one of the most noteworthy is that which ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1472 | Page: 18, 60, 63 | Tags: Photographs 

A Bouquet for B.O.A.C

... Ambassador. He showed that you can fly an aeroplane satisfactorily through the automatic pilot-- which then becomes, strictly speaking, semi automatic. For big transport machines the automatic pilot is a standard fitting and, in the future, power-operated ...

Early Vegetables to off-set tlie Shortage

... may often be attained by placing them in the closer atmosphere of a propagating case on the greenhouse staging. Generally speaking, little or no ventilation will be needed in the greenhouse before the seeds have germinated, but afterwards the vents must ...

Racing Down Under: Elwick, Tasmania; Randwick's Famous Course

... t Tax on cinemas but racing, the out door recreation of multitudes from time immemorial, is harder hit.- Lord Rosebery, speaking at Newmar ket, December 6, 1949. Our pictures illustrate two courses overseas both models of the designer s art. Elwick, ...

Let Justice Be Done

... intelligence of British juries are hearten- ing. One thing does again and again appear: the more spectacular trials, vulgarly speaking, have not always been the most interesting legally. Here we have, rescued from oblivion, a number of cases which, because ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2179 | Page: 36, 37 | Tags: Photographs  Review 

A SURVEY OF THE FOREIGN NEWS IN PICTURES

... as a friend of Britain CHINA WILL YET BE FREE wl these words Madame Chiang Kai-s] bade farewell to her radio audita] when speaking from the home ofhii brother-in-law at Riverdale, New Yon before leaving the United States. is tojoin the Generalissimo on ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 880 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

The Old War-horse

... nt, was not then a very popular species. The main reason for the hate was because it gave a junior officer the chance of speaking his mind about even a G.O.C., to make no mention of a Prime Minister. Those times, I feel sure, were some of Mr. Churchill's ...

Published: Wednesday 25 January 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1325 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

Radioactive Plant Products

... are built up, and in turn radioactive compounds. As radioactivity can be demonstrated by means of instruments or, broadly speaking, photo graphy, radioactive indicators can be used to show where things get to in the body, and how long they take to get ...

Escape to the Sun

... Bermuda is the aristocrat of sterling resorts. The island is the supreme holiday-in-the-sun playground for half the English- speaking world and the climate is now at its best. Three airlines link it to London and New York and the Queens are regular visitors ...

Published: Wednesday 25 January 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1707 | Page: 44, 46 | Tags: Comic strips  Photographs 

The Brilliant but Unorthodox

... and to have divided the Ald ridge's Cup, to have won fourteen courses in little less than ten weeks, is a performance which speaks for itself. To have kept a back on such a large raking dog, to have sent him to slips fit and keen enough to dis pose of all ...

Madagascar: Sindbad's Island And Pearl Of The Indian Ocean

... treasure it, furthermore because the resources of its great forested area still wait development. Because Mada gascar is, speaking mineralogically, a land with a future full of infinite, uncharted promise. Of few of the world's large, relatively well- ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1749 | Page: 26, 78, 80 | Tags: Photographs