Beating The Cold
might have
becn
her
Valerie waiting in the wings for cue in the ed Riding Hood Instead, she was pantomime.
a very cold little fox, warm- 03 blanket wrapped in
against the weather at the Landon Zoo-Reuterphoto.
Gas-Cooker
Goes On £170 Dollar Hunt
London, Dec. 30.
The first gas-cooker to fly the Atlantic is to take off soon in an airliner from London Airport for lour to United States
A
persuade American housewives to "cook British."
THE:
CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1952.
Great Britain's Civil Jets
9.
Unique Experiment In Honesty
Break Crust Of
The Dollar Market
(By BRETT OLIVER)
י.
London, Dec. 30.
Britain's perseverance with th
e development of jet airliners has started to bring in a fat dollar dividend. Not as big as the plane makers would like to see, but they have their fingers crossed.
American airline chiefs are impressed and the crust has been broken with the bagging of contracts to supply Pan American World Airways with Comets and Trans-Canada Air Lines with Vicker's Viscount turbo- props.
British producers are now hoping that others of the big American air- lines will step into the queue for their jeta. :
Hiking Round The World
inis!
Several US, basses have been steadily as big orders come in. In touch with the factories of de Now plants are being built and Havilland, Bristol and Vickers-sub-contracting facilities greatly Air line.chiels know Armstronst. They have been expanded. given all the facts, and now are the time factors involved and chewing over their decisions, are prepared for them. Meanwhile, fingers remain cross-
Overseas orders so far received chi this side of the Atlantic,
for British jet airlinera are, i There is a snar about
however, by no means insigui- cracking of the dollar market.
ficant, even at this stage. Do mout Havilland has contracts for 23 it. Ever Comets. Buying Series 1A types since the war they have been on
cenare Conndian Pacific Airlines tied
down to concentration (two), Royal Canadian Air Force military jcts, while Britain jumped ahead with civil planes. (wo), Air France (three) and in a way, was only fair another French company U.A.T.
(three). because Amerfen got a wartime It was the call of adven-lead on airliners. while Britain ture that made a London was concentrating on military
bombers. boy leave England at the end of July, with only £25 in his pocket, determined to see the world.
17-Year-Old Boy's Adventure
London. Dec. 30.
TURBO-PROPS
Pageant On Thames For Coronation?
London, Dec. 39.
A Lord Mayor's pageant on the Tiamtes for Corpha- lion year is under considéra- ties. One suggestion is that the pageant leak be floodlit
Prominent watermen haya the Lord Mayor,
promit Do la Bere,
Ble
Lupport.
Among those disening plans is Sir Alan Herbert, a Freeman of the Watermen's and Lightermen's Company. Ils proposal is that the Queen should be asked to head a procession · starting at Southend and growing as it sails to the Houses of Parliament.
New Party Formed In Germany
Families Were Too Proud To Beg
For State Help
London, Dec. 30.
Proud families cut down living standards to the bone rather than beg for State help during the Lancashire textile slump.
They were able to carry on with savings ac- cumulated in prosperity years during and after the war, and with trade union help.
This, rather than the success rent and rates, were regarded of social security, schemes, ac na first claims upon income, counts for the fact that "real
"Several familles not only re- hardship this year in the col ton towns of Lancashire. has duce their expenditure on the been small despite fairly wide more highly priced rations, but Do made every attempt to keep spread unemployment.”
up rpending on cigarettes and P.E.P.--the research unit, an occasional 'evening out. Political and Economic Planning
Kay's
"A mother regularly visited that in a report justthe local cotball ground even Issued."
when her income was half that Examining the Welfare Stato which she received after even- under its first real test of unem tually applying for national" as- ployment, P.E.P. found it (cosistance. rigid and a little Inhuman.
•BITTER MEMORIES
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"A family of four with only £1 weeks left for food and household necesalties felt they Memories were long and had to keep up occasional cigar- Boan, Dec. 30.
bitter, says the report, "People often and visits to the cinema. A new German political remembered the old poor law They had not applied for netis- party-the "All German and were unwilling. to revool
tance." People's Party" has been private circumstances to public founded in Frankfort by Dr Gustav Heinemann, Chan- Many found it difficult to un- ex-derstand complex Insurance ro- Adenauer's cellor
Somo gulatioris. Minister of the Interior, and proud or too shy to ask. The Series 2. for delivery in 54-year-old Frau Helene
How did they carry on? -- Now that the British evil Jet 1054-55, has been ordered by
former chairman Wessel,
"When, the The report says: tead is being brought right home British Commonwealth Pacific to the Americans, their aircraft Airlines (six), a Venezuela air and ex-parliamentary leader industry is dead set on having line (two) and Japan Air Lines of the Catholic "Centre" stump started, many people were in a position to tide over n lean the door shut to the Comet and (two). Then, for the Series 3. Party.
period of wooks and Families with lis turbo-prop cousins. As a re- there is the Pan American order
At its foundation were 160 even months.
both husband and wife working, suit, the industry is pressing the of three.
order by $11,500,000
were often accustomed to a new Elsenhower Administration
They met in Germany. to block British icts, arguing that Trans-Canada Air Lines for 15 men and women from all over
huge weekly income of from £10.to is in-
Viscounts brings the Vickers
Frankfort inn under 4 the purchase of Comets directly a subsidy to the British number of these turbo-prop air-poster "We prevent a third world £14.
the American lines on the books to 75. These
war." And they hammered out Treasury
include 12 for Air France, four the manifesto of All German Treasury.
Party Cesemtes- In other words, men like Floyd for the Irish airline, Aer Lingus People's B. Odium, chairman of Con- and six for Trans Australian deutsche Volkspartel (GVP). Victoria, British On his way to Vienna, a jeep-solidated Vulter Aircraft Cor-Airlines in the field to produce Columbia,, recently introduced full of Russians stopped him-poration, are claiming that the the system of allowing custom and offered him lift to the money for Comets ultimately jet airlines is the Bristol Aero- for Germany". crs to "pay what you think city. The next day, they called comes out of the US. taxpayers plane Company, with its high- your meat is worth". And he is to show him round Vienna. pockets and hurts the aircraft performance, long-range Bristol making a profit.
industry.
Toronto, Dec. 30.
a taste
And 17-year-old Donald White, who is hitch-hiking his way round the globe, has already had
of the
adventure he People are basically honest, sought. In Switzerland, he was Decording to a Canadian res taken on a 10-day tour of the taurant owner who has made a country by a blonde Swedish film big experiment In this connee-
star, Elisabett Olsson, who gave The restaurant owner, Paut him & litt in her car.
Ben.
Arsen
of
Customers estimate the value
Then, in Turkey, Donald, who travelling through the of their meal, ring up the price was
a young English on the cash registers and take country with
.wag Davies, The cooker, * streamlined their own change.
a
As a result girl, model with
Barbara
from
NOT TOO WORRIED Mr Odlum says the U.S.
The
Latest
Britannia
the
The type.
the
now
ultra modern business has not only doubled stopped by an armed man in a Treasury will help pay for the now Noth the for gadgets, designed as a dollar but the diners are paying more car and taken back the 70 miles Comets because it pays subsidies five cargo-type
It to the airlines to carry mail.
A
"In general, familles cut down spending not only on drink and and nowspapers cigarettes, periodicals, and but also on meat, butter, milk, fruit and clothing.
confectionery,
"Hire purchase and private insurances, almost as much
third U.S.
the
Gesture
London, Dec. 30.
When people in the Isle of Thanet want an accurate fore-
Its policy is one of "neutrality And its programme has as its alms: turbo-prop. Only one,
1. Avoidance of any German exists to date. military alliance-either with the Overseas Airways Russians or with the West. Ger Corporation has ordered 20 on
many must become of this alone, and world power between
further Russians and the West. Britannias.
2. Establishment of German the way he had just come.
So far, no orders have come unity, £170 in air than they used to. catcher, will cost
3. Membership of a United East freight charges to its Birming- Explains Mr Arsen: "People was only later that he discovered And he backs this up by saying from overseas airlines. But
are fundamentally honest and, the man was a policeman--and that Consolidated could have there has been much spirited and West Germany in UNG-that cast of local weather 48 hours
nibbling, specially from Canada is, British firms have So for what
is more, they are afraid of that he had saved them from the 200-passenger jet airlines flying by 1955 the Government
Mexico. The
Joinurity for Germany without ahead they diai 823281 and ask)
either the East or West for "Mel" found
astooking cheap. Now my cus-hands of hostile villagers.
would release the necessary Government
considering power group. appliances in the U.S.A. largely tomers are paying a dollar (75.
Association Through the Middle East, space and manpower from work adapt
adapting the Britannia boik
as a
The "Emergency because United States products2d.) for meals that used to be
maritime reconnaissance aircraft for the Donald was helped by oll com- en military planes.
of Europe," good and sell at competitive 30 or 90
Britain's civil jet producers mar
and cargo plane. A decision is founded by He
Heinemann and Frau prices.
couple so like their pany officials who gave him lifts
are not unduly worried by this imminent, and will probably re- Wessel previously for organising But the makers of the new steaks that they paid a total of across the deserts. cooker believe that it is unusual
he was in the turn of events. They know that mult in the establishment of a In Baghdad, enough to have a better chance. $5 for what we charged $3.50.
"And when they come to pay Golden Mosque, taking pletures, at the moment there is nothing tannia production line at the mass meetings to protest against local weather forecasts gratis, centrated on the Middle Western the bill themselves, why, some when he was told that Christianto stop an American airline tromontrent works of Canada/ the Bonn Govemment's policy of
Hammakers.
arc
i difcult to sell
The sales drive
States.
is to be con-
WELL HIDDEN
New York, Dec. 30. Three times a woman shop- Efter at Oklahoma was searched. after arrest,
No. 1 revealed a bracelet and necklace hidden on her; No. 2,
combs, twa pens, Ave
two scarves; No, 3, two bottles of perfume. four more scarves, two men's shirts, ear-rings, and a brooch.
75
27
One
conis.
even short-change themselves."
LICENCE WAS PERPETUAL.
London, Dec. 30.
Д
buying whatever planes it kee were not allowed in the mosque. But they realise, too, that the The last one found there had us Government could make
and
company.
Canadian
Peace
army, will be taken over by the Limited, the main Canadian participating in the European All German craft
newly formed
lys that his in next Bona for the
been strangled, he was warned, things decidedly sticky by pro It is hard to say when Brie People's Party.
will be Dr Heinemann so he made a hasty retreal. tecting the interests of the big tain's aircraft industry
Now in Karachi, Donald hopes American plano firms. Another able to uncross its fingers over GVP will participate
deals. In other year's election dollar market reason. _for___keeping_ fingers to travel through India, Burro crossed right now....
markets, it is steadily bullding parliament.. Australia before
Now it Malaya and
It is waiting to up Man summoned at Tunbridge crossing the Pacific
In spite of this Lehind-the- to North
airlines American British see campaigning, Wells for keeping a dog without merica then, he says, he will scenes
follow the Pan Heence claimed he had a a perpetual licence which needed feel justified in claiming that he makers are confident of selling generally will
has seen the world." no renewal,
The magistrates looked at the liccnee, saw the date of expiry had been omitted and dismissed the case.
Zipped-Up
A British Crossword Puzzle Jet Engines
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For Export
business.
to the Americans. Their own American Airways' lead and marketing campaign was given seal the future for British civil a great stimulus by the Panjet, aircraft-London Expresa American decision to buy three Service..
Comet 3s for delivery in 1956,
Unes
with an option da seven more. Pan American step whe widence that U.S.-air- red tho are looking serosa Atlantic for fleet replacements. And it was a rebuff for Ameri- can aircraft manufactures like Lockheed, Douglas and Boeing whose plates were rejected in Comet after a favour of the year
of negotiations by Pan
London, Dec. 30.
shipment American.
for
Jet engines abroad are now being zipped- up in a spray-on plastic pack- uge which can be removed and used again.
BLOW OUTPUT Eddle Rickenbacher, colourful head of America's Eastern Aft lines, would also have Comets The process used is Texicoon; ordered by now if Britain had on the cocooning been able to give him an earlier technique developed after the delivery date for the first batch war
fur preserving military Something many come of it yet, for Mr Rickenbacher and de and naval equipment.
Texicoon is sprayed on to a Havilland are still in touch,
The
of
British pro-
an advance
slownoc
Spaniel's "Blue-Baby"
Operation
Lounge Suits Approved At
Coronation
London, Dec. 80...
The Earl Marshal, the Duke
just
of Norfolk, has decided against an "austerity" Coronation. His dress regulations,
some con- announced, contain cessions to present-day dun- in the culties, but the scene
bbey will retain all its ancient splendour.
jet engine, across which a zip-auction has often been criticised. toms as a human child, Restrie- also been relaxed,"
All the peers and peeresses Vancouver, Dec. 30. will wear their
velvet and Boots is ап 13-month-old will
with and frisking ermine robes, preferably cocker spaniel
Vancouver home silver-gilt coronets about her
But for the first time for today--believed to be the first
have a "blue-baby" nearly 300 years. coronets will dog to
not be compulsory for these bo heart low the rank of earl'or countess, operation.
The surgeon was A specialist at the British Colum- Instead, they may wear velvet
caps of stale, bla Medical Research Institute.
The rules for commoners Havo Boats showed the same symp-
Any man attending the cere fastener has been placed, It dries almost inmediately into a In fairness, it must be said that tion in the supply of her blood,
ot-caused to a Heart malforma- mong but not taking part in if tough but pliable covering besides ruoning the risks
concentration tion, made her lips and tonguo may wear a dark lounge suit. shaped to the profie of the tached to initial
blue. She red caslly, the
turbine engine, gus machine it protects,
factories actually
The operation was complicat went ahead The surface is hard to break,
Boots wag kept
Find In Sussex but if broken it can be patched with production without having ed by the structure of a dog's
Jung so for what, they, were by brushing it over with more orders
This was done after breathing during the operation
London, Dec. 30." pumps air making. liquid.
valve which travol. by a interest in jet "When the engine is wanted,
gauging the cover is zipped open by As it has turned out, it is a pity through the lungs of a patient. Ancient Mass dial used in the Cost of the treatment? Mr 12th century for dmoting Ume go all-out right hand. But instead of throwing they did not
Davis, Bools's owner, and the of services has been unearthed it
with the cocoon from the start,
The fact now, is that large- research Institute are keeping at St Nicholas Church, Shero-
ham, Sussex. method, It can be rolled up and stowed away till needed for an-scale production will be built up that a secret. other engine. Then it is placed
away
over the engine again, zipped
and the fastener scaled by
on
brushing on some more cover Nightingale Will Sing In Berkeley Sq.
Ing.
Second Oldest Line Closes
London, Dec. 30. for the nightingale that sang Large crowns of roses will be
auspended in the
bo dis-leading to tho' square,"
They aro connected to the of the meteorological section United States air force
at
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 6.9.30 P.M.
STEWART GRANGER
JEAN KENT-AMRIS CRAWFORD.
CARAVAN
吉布赛的誘惑!
IN THE
Manston base, which supplies Jan. 1-T. SINGIN'
BAIN
to
The service is used mostly by farmers who are, anxious
of frost, know the likelihood. and anglers who are planning a day's boat fishing.
If you are around Berkeley there,
they won't Square about next June, surg
The cost will be £1,100, 1 enough you will hear rightin-appointed if they check up."
In Mayfair's other famous The nightingales. will festlo geles singing
Butanole.cannot among pink-and-white rosa | squaro, Grosvenor Square, plana are under way to drape the Berkeley Squaro garlands. be cages,
**Lamp standards in the square first floor frontages of all London, Doc. 30,
to make de Wils, life-size, going t With engine whistle blowing ife-like nightingales, rodde by are to be garlanded. There will buildings with blue and gold and for signals detonating on expert HALF His bo three rose arbours in the tapestries Large boxes of res flowers will be placed on the -to the May- gardena, belongs to the line, the last train on the The idea
the famous square. is to balconies, "Cmb and Winkle," Canterbury safe Association. An omdat
Hiking up, from the balconies ling world's saki;
We feel that many tourists The pavillon le going to be it is proposed will be twin ter. Animated, 8 Unile, 9 Eycelt, 11 Theatre.. 18 Adipose, 10 second oldest tallway, two resWo. feel that man, for the repainted, a notice telling the ger bolumns surmounted by of buildings in the emblems in red; The cost? Angler, 18 Peers, 19 Tottored, 25 Trend, 21 Yondor. Down; 1 törday,
The line 122 years old, is Coronation will make a bec-line story
for Berkeley Squer and look so jard: wil be placed" Inside. About £3,000. Heave, 2 Mirnte, 9 Deteste, 4 Endure 5 Teclotal: 0 Revere, 10
closed Evidence, 12 Healthy, 13 Aspect, 14 Ousted, 10 Green, 17 Iulder.
22 Communists (4).
21 Quoto (4).
23 Way. ouh (4)% w/
24. Sediment; (4)%) et
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