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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acres had been cleared for vegetable gardens and 300 orchard trees had been planted. The elders met, decided to lift the ban on children. In July, husky, unmarried, 36-year-old Florence Berikoff bore the first child, a boy. It was, said Colony Spokesman Joseph Podovinikoff, "the first free motherhood" based on 400-year-old Doukhobor principles...
When Ben Hogan and his U.S. Ryder Cup golfers came ashore from the Queen Elizabeth at Southampton, meat-rationed Britons swallowed hard at the sight of the team's 600 steaks, plus bacon and hams, which went through customs duty free...
central German Government, they recon sidered the question of the press. The British kept their controls on. But the U.S. authorities dropped licensing and gave the Germans a virtually free press. Ugly Note. By this week, the number of newspapers in the U.S. zone had jumped from 57 to 198; in Bavaria alone, 77 new papers had rushed into print. The ugly note in the new dawn of press freedom was that many of the newcomers were former Nazi and super-nationalist editors and publishers, originally barred because of unsavory political records. Max Willmay, who used to publish Julius Streicher...
Despite devaluation, pound notes this week could still be bought cheaper than the official $2.80 rate in New York's "free market." (The notes could not be used in commercial transactions, were chiefly useful to tourists who could take ?5 into Britain.) The notes, which had been selling at $2.90 before devaluation, were down to $2.60 to $2.70. However, the price gap was now so small that bankers thought Britain could clean up the supply of notes, if it wished, by removing the bars on taking them into Britain...
Team Play. Britain's triumph in aircraft design was due to a combination of free-enterprising plane builders, Labor government financing and good planning. It did much to wipe out the government's flop with the Tudor planes which had cost British taxpayers an estimated $28 to $40 million. As far back as 1942, the government had put grizzled Baron Brabazon of Tara (who holds Britain's Pilot License No. 1) at the head of a committee which mapped out five basic postwar types to go after the world plane market. Last week prototypes...