Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after Christmas, the great Berlin airlift was six months old. By then, it had carried 700,000 tons of supplies to besieged Berlin. That meant an average of 3,800 tons in an average of 550 flights a day (one-third by Britain's R.A.F.). Last week, Air Secretary Symington said that in 1949, when new planes are put into operation, the daily total can be doubled. So far, 17 Americans and seven Britons have been killed in airlift accidents...
...seldom as effectively, after pondering Canada's (and North America's) strategic position in the age of long-range bombers, rocket-firing submarines and atomic warheads. To be prepared for "the only possible enemy-Communist Russia," says Baldwin, Canada should give "complete and entire cooperation" to Britain and the U.S. He skips lightly over Canada's ability to support the program of cooperation that he sets out in definite terms...
While TV antennas mushroom from U.S. rooftops, the rest of the world is coming to grips with the new "eater of hours" much more slowly. Only three nations have made even faintly comparable progress : Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union. (Canada hopes to have TV, with U.S. equipment...
...Britain, television is older (regular telecasts were begun in 1936, abandoned during the war), smaller and-in some fields of programming-better than in the U.S. With only one TV station and some 85,000 sets, Britain is momentarily hamstrung by a shortage of the special glass needed for cathode tubes. British TV carries no advertisements and is dependent for revenue on government subsidies and an annual tax of ?2 on each set owner. Among the programs scheduled are Ascot races, plays such as King Lear (which ran over three hours and was given in two sections on consecutive evenings...
Though great efforts are being made to increase set production, Britain seems clearly distanced by U.S. television. Even the wretched U.S. television commercials are signs of a prosperity that British television does not and may never enjoy...