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...Abolished price ceilings on another broad range of consumer items, e.g., poultry & eggs, soaps, paint, window glass, which are now selling generally below ceilings; and a first batch of industrial commodities, e.g., crude rubber, scrap metals, iron ore, lead, zinc, tin, petroleum & gas products, some of which are pressing ceilings and may well advance in prices...
...line-in the mining town of Kalgoorlie on the very edge of the great Australian desert-detectives at last caught up with Norman Morton-Stewart. He was down to his last eleven shillings elghtpence ha'penny. Charged with vagrancy and clapped into a tin-roofed jail that crawled with cockroaches, he put in a collect call to England. "Darling!" cooed his faithful Lady Barbara, "don't worry about anything! When are you coming home...
...predominate. The Hausas in the north, who furnish the backbone of Britain's tough West African Rifles, are Moslems. The South is divided between the ex-cannibal Ibos and sturdy Yoruba farmers, whose ancient city, Ibadan (pop. 400,000), is the largest native city in Africa. Chief resources: tin, coal and palm oil. Since 1939 Nigeria's national income has multiplied six times...
...vogue of hillbilly and "country" tunes may have something to do with Marais' new popularity with the jukebox trade. But his songs have engaging, Calypso-style rhythms of their own, and turns of phrase in the lyrics (e.g., "How lovely cooks the meat") that never came from Tin Pan Alley...
Married. Henry Junkins ("Bob") Topping, 39, nightclubbing tin-plate heir; and brunette Mona Mae Moedl, 24, Sun Valley skating instructor; he for the fifth time (No. 4: Cinemactress Lana Turner) she for the second; in Salt Lake City...