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JOHN ETWAS ANDERS BE THE SONTHEVESTS
SO WONDER THE COOTS WHO'VE BEEN HOWLING FOR MORIE EVERYTHING DON'T KNOW HOW
The heart of
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We kept Prandon
GODFATHERS
WATHE-ARMENDARIZ HABRY CARET. JB.
AN MAN BATH - MELE MARCH » BANK BEPPELL
-JEAN FORD
A BESSÉ COLORIN HORTER PIRTING
So WE MUST BOOST THE MORALE OF EMPLOYERS BY CUTTING TAXES AND
RAISING PROFITS,
HEY?
--AND WE MUST BOOST THE
MORALE OF WORKERS BY
CUTTING TIG STANDARD OF LIFE AND RAISING WORKING HOURS?
WELL, IT'S A
POINT OF VIENN
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How Doctor In t'
T
Tackles Bevan's
AMSTERDAM.
working TWO British
parties have junt been scurrying across Holland. Unc. a five-man party sponsored by the Bri- fish Ministry of Works. The other, a one-man party financed by a London news- I am all its nem- paper. bera.
For one thing he is moving out families from
huts army
into
Government offices-and moving his staff into the
By HAROLD
huts.
BRETT
· WHO ARE YOU CALLING NAMES
THT AMERICANS who URSHED CONVEKTABILITY ON US TO DRAIN OUR COLD RESERVES?
Y. I WARN YOU, SIR.
TAKT CARE, YOU ALRY CO.
Veld Job
hours
whitela provide
two
Field,
In This Britain Leads The World...
BY PETER LOVEGROVE
LONDON. total world figures aro
4 alight decline on OVERNMENT exhorta- showing
last year something in the na- tions to British indus- ture of 10 percent. Our best trialists to study the customers in this field aro Ays. needs, likes and dislikes of tralia, India, Argentine, Switzer- foreign customers to assist land, South Africa and Brill, the export-drive-are obvious ly not addressed to manu- facturers in our cycle in dustry. -
This year's Cycle and Motor- Cycle Silver Jubilee Show at Earl's Court, London, and the trade Agures prove how the roughly they understand satisfy the specialist needs individual markets.
and
Special Handlebar
THERE are,
for
of
But to get back-to-the-Show One interesting feature was that the reduction in the weight of bicycles, demonstrated last year, Is continuing. This is due to the greater use of light tubing for frames, the outstanding ex- amplo being a new
Raleigh which weighs only 161b. (In used by comparison, the bicycle
the world protes
mpion,
weighs 211b, the average British road-
sional
ས་
ater weights between 30 and 40 lb, and American machines are All the instance, roughly 201b, heavier.)
except these
specially tail machines to give metal como made-of
Hindus room for their flowing in
the
dhotla, and others with low light alloy. Then again steel has riding position and other fea- been Improved; skilled heat Lures preferred by Canadian treatment now makes it possible riders.
to drill out, or to pare away,
For
South Africa, some Alings ilko ball bearings and models are cushioned for the still leave them stronger than rough ronds over which they are they were before. used by untive police and post-
The
house In one dwelling for Ruits them, newlyweds ni other small British West and
£1
casc to
Motor-Cycles
men. Bleyeles destined for the Persinns are fitted with stands because outside Teheran and IN the motor-cycle
feld, the bigger towns there аге no most notable advance, from Kerbstones.
the lowest price units unwards, is Cypriots get the special that all machines are fitted with handlebar which particularly engines of unit construction,
and machines for only the cylinder and carburet
East Africa tor protruding above the egg- families, the rent 14 only 93. have gearenses to
protect the shaped crank case which houses
the houses
from the chainwheel These week.
Jong
the magneto and generating Dutch convert into two fals jungle-grass, and those for the equipment, primary drive chain
Middle and Far East oilbath and gear box. for Mid
Many of the cost of mt
only £0
prevent sand and dust lightweights are equipped with Inbour and materials,
it costs getting into the chain, and the telescopic front forks, and, at £20 to convert them back into long galinbins and robes from last
A number are available single houses.
being solled.
with plunger-type rear spring- is tho
with the ing rent of 10s, or more a week. 11. went to
Reuts in Holland. 215 In coloura If most peoplo on
The Velocatio water-cooled! But he is not putting families in, similarity of
England, are kept artificially these islands prefer austerity Dr In 1 Veld and his Ministry extend to the men's ideas.
first low by Restriction Dr In Veld, as the
Acts binck and sober tones, abroad twin which made its debut lant I am here to report on have moved into the huts, and
have hankering for year, and the latest 244 cc twin being con- Dutch burgonaster to be suck- According to Dr In Veld. they they what the Dutch
part two-stroke Excelsior are both are doing their old building
Germans, is all for are too low. He is putting brightly-coloured, even
and equipped with rear springing with their post-war hous- verted back into 100 substantial ed by the
from coloured enamel Anishes decentralising Stale power and them by 15 percent flats for people of The Hague.
and full lighting equipment as power of local January 1 Ing. So is the Ministry
standard, supplying features So party.
which have hitherto only been is a group of
available on much heavier and American senators just ar rived at The Hague.
more costly machines.
the Architects builders who have streaming into Holland all this year from all over the world.
are
The reason:
But
Wil be
not
they will increase the
preserving tho
The universities.
Careers does not
No Politics
He sees no reason why people should expect ent alone to be so much cheaper than the other costs of life.
Vital incentive
Pamc
transparent lacquers.
"Carmen Miranda"
A
at
4 HE has just told Dutchmen councils.
that from January 1 they can once again build their own
Ameng So houses. No licence
ND they got them.
some of the gay colours and needed.
In the full-size range, where Holland the housing prob-
Earl's Court were hellotrope, Britain is now prac ically un- been Dr In Veld does not expect
lem 13 viewed 03 the
maroon, bright green (with gold challanged, it was interesting to building B I follow in the tracks of there will be more than a few
duck yellow and eau- linings), du
note that, while there were thousand of these private home practical problem of
as many houses as possible builders in the first year,
the ofer British working du-Nit (which happily is so un-
eight 350 ce basic models, the that they have like the original muddy brown), number of the 500 ce type and enough to deplete his stocks of as quickly as possible. Politics party, I hear
do not enter into it.
been telling the Dutch about and one Harlequin effort called over, was as many as twenty. building materials. The Dutch,
If high costs hold up output, our incentive schemes to get "Carmen
Miranda,"
is which
It is now being more generally then costa must come down. bricklayers lo
lay more than the heart's desire of every number of homes. Compet on Not output.
realised that the addition of 150 One way of cut- 600 bricks a day. The Dutch, Argentino of modest means.
cc or more capaci to the ca- will help to bring down prices
ting costs is by decreasing the
whose bricklayers lay 1,000 (ui Just how successful are the gine, anta
and consequent better bricks, their slightly smaller)
results
of this intelligent re- performance, results have been sympathetic.
search into, and an'icipation, of a frining
A
increase in weight, The Dutch have their own customers' requirements is without substan fally
raising national
build shown in the silv Agures.
une centre of gravity. It is homes quickly, It is the fact There is scarcely a country in significant that two makers of
day that dawns the world
which to
Brit'sh Vertical Twins have augmented there are about 800 more Dutch machines are not sent-wheeled their range with new engines people in the world than there ambassadors for Britain, which of 350 ee copselty, which should' were the day before.
Provide
simple, cheap and
who began late with their housing drive, are now do ing well where other coun- and develop new building ideas. SHOWING
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She won take NO1
He won't
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The gay adventures of
a bachelor
baby-doctor
who wants to
stay single!
Dova Bebery
Cary Grant
I DON HARTMAN'S moduction
Every Girl Should
Be Married
FRANCHOT TONE-DANA LYNN BETSY DRAKE
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MATTING « Bum Tij Dilatalat hy Kaplan, Marchen Anry
Their brilliant architects steered by a remarkable Housing Minister have turned housing into one of the world's biggest tourist attractions.
Like a palace
MET the
stre of
TOOMS
houses
1
headquarters staff of 900 store a cubicle for
you are
hol,
that every
to Incentive
to
T
only
a shower bath. At the start of this century economical transport for count- provide more effortless power
of flats are the
race.
millions of every religion and nationality.
Last year we exported 1,604.- 878 machines which earned us foreign currency to the tune of
was a re-
And a higher cruising speed, with only a minor effect upon petrol consumption.
Outstanding
Some of the cuts are drastic by British Ideas. While livng bedrooms and main Dutch Housing are the same size as ours, the
Apart second bedroom is often an Minister in his hut, from the panelling it is the same by Bft. saw two children's sort of shed as that in which his bods in a room ft. by Bft.
The bathroom has shrunk to the'r 875 bleycles every day.
Once inside the huts, with In some cases
the entrance they had a population of 6,000,-
consider we should white The Minister, Mr Bevan's their corridors.
000. walls, halls
Next month they expect the birth of their 10,000,000th counterpart, is Dr Joris In and false ceilings, it is diucult good deep cupboard.
some Against this
the tenant. t' Veld. Here are some of to Imagine thal
Instead of appointing a Pa
to study show places of their kind in pulation Commission the remarkable things hey, on the fifth floor of any Dutch workers'
municipal palace in England.
Only the marble is missing- Europe. paced out a flat in how to keep them citizens out £13 million. That has done:
Iam where
have ap-cord for the industry, but it is two rooms of the world, tuy but not missed!
that these figurer anticipated to me can be thrown into one giving pointed Dr In Veld Minister will be easily left behind in HE has cut the staff of De In Veld talked
In English, occasionally helped an uninterrupted length of 80 of Housing and Reconstruction 1949. Already, in the first 650 cc Twin Thunderbird", his Housing Ministry
with a troublesome phrase by feet, lit by four of those great panes that from 8,000 to 1,200. At the his Presa officer. But his ideas soven-foot window
the light and sun into let time he has raised came through quite clearly. same
The doctor is a Socialist, and Dutch homes. the rate of Dutch house
houses ns Mr Rents for workers' about the samo age building almost
10s. 143. to up to its
Bevan. Both men started as are low-about
For the new duplex pro-war figure of 40,000 poor lads, and, after roughing Inclusive.
permanent homes a
He aims at a swift, steady increase to a total of 55,000, the highest
now
year. Land
in Dutch history.
He has no trouble in gel- all the timber he
ting
wants from Sweden and [Finland.
Costs reduced
Amsterdam
fils job is
homes with industries and
that seems logicul.
BOTTIC
THE outstanding tight of the
Tshows The first three pro-
duction models of the Triumph's
to provide them 47
nine months, the total had which were ridden a month ago new now and
Alee Scable, Lon Baylles, and by reached over 1,705 003 jobs for when reen
and S.B. Manns from Coventry big orders were 18 they grow up. At close range
as the show to Monilhery nerodrome near placed
Paris-averaging over 92 mph opened.
The Indians
our best for the 500 miles carried out cus'omers, Over 200,000
of final laps at over 100 mph and then ridden back to
-London Express Service)
C.V.R. Thompson Reports The American Scene
very 08
soon
aro
them rode new British bicycles were last year, and this figure may Coventry. well be trebled in 1949, South Africa comes next
1948; over
British
(167,000 in
They are designed primarily
100,000 in the first for sustained high speeds on six months of this year), and the vast, smooth highways of Africa and West Africa, the Ma- America, South
Australia. Their performance. layan Union, Indonesia, the Irish Republic beliind
is better than that of the large were not far American Twin, and they weigh
Lost Markets broadcasts
NEW YORK. But what Interests other unions Amaricom broadcasting stations PROWN-OUTS-no Broadway is another announcementalks to retransmit BBC
from London. skysigns and no shopwindow begin soon for a wage increase. hts may be ordered in New
HE has reduced the
York soon if the coal strike is TITY American business men cost of house building' not settled quickly. Power W get tired, according to a test by 10 percent in a year- companies" supplies of coal by a Philadelphia hospital: They without reducing builders' are getting dangerously low. work too much in the evenings
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THE DEATHLESS DRAMA
OF THOSE FEARLESS FEW WHO DREW THE MAP
OF AMERICA ACROSS THE WILDERNESS JAIN LINES, OF THEIR OWN BLOOD
CRY
COOPER GODDARD
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Cute beTRAUNICOLOR
ROMANO DA SILVA BORIS KARLOFF - CECH. KELLAWAY WARD BONIN
JAMES CRAIC • LYNN BARI în "THE MAN FROM TEXAS”
wages.
Some workers' homes aro
are
have
J
De fully
to the
only 365 lb., as against the Intter's 600 to 700. Ib.
This was not the most power SOME traditional markets, such fui or most expensive machine.
as Holland for example, on view. At the top of the list,....ion
HRD Black NHOW BUSINESS: America have almost comple'ely been came the Vincent
wants to get the Sadler's lost, owing to the strait-Jacket Lightning racing motor-cycle, Wells company back for at least of bilateral trading agreemen's, which made its bow last year 20 weeks next year.
That is while the all-important hard. Its 1,000 ce twin-cylinder engine
markets have yet to can too much the only
propel it at 150 mph on they talk at home,
way Sel. Hurok, the currency
exploited, Canada took the road, and I's price is £420 New York concert promotor be Indispensable, and down to £800 for the building. IONS are watching what is business over lunch, they think
going to happen next in an they
who arranged this season, will only 19000-odd bicycles inst (plus £113. Bs. purchase tax) and another £150-£200 for the unusu) experiment in co-opera therefore do not take proper be able to stop rows in the pro-year and the US but 15,000; Lowest-priced was the 08 ce
this year's figures up huge plling and concrete rafts tion between workste and boss holidays, they do not
company devaluation of the pound show- two-stroke James which costs needed to support a house on in September a New York union hobbles, and they do not know will be there only a day, if at all, ed only a small rise in Canadian only £48.109. (plus £18 PT). squelchy Dutch soll.
In four wecks the ballet grossed
and a big In US One of these machines has been
drop In £91,400, which
In That is for a smaller house £2,000. on advertisements moderation in work or play.
1and
n 2.000-mile round- urging customers to patronise than the council houses of Bri- the store for which its members THE ECONOMY, CUTS in fits than Broadway's most fabulous ECE
This trend was even more Britain demonstration ride, It work. Their theory was: "The New York office staff mean success, “Sou
"South
An- Pacifle."
pronounced in the case of averaged 100 miles a gallon, and more the boss makes, the better that the BBC over here will be other company,
from France, mo or-cycles,
to running cost amounted to, Exports all Brillah. I am told that the will succeed the great Sadler's Canada and the United States 35/e. This model has also been QHE in using an assortment for u
success. Because of have been dropping ever since most successfut in the most. of wooden huts left behind Now the union says its cam- 14 who have been sacked are Well
now mania for 1947, when the United States severe reliability trial over or by the Germans. The huts are paign has brought in 4,000 new Americans. The remaining 15 Broadway's bigger than those in which Bri- accounts. It said it will spend will prepars material for broad-ballet, they have extended their was the biggest British export ganised in Europe over 1,240
The miles of mountain country. market for our machines. and help season to the Now Year. - tish families now squat at a £6,000 more before Christmas, ensta from America,
tain, but it is better than a place on a waiting list.
NANCY
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ME FOR
SPILLING THE
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I APOLOGIZE FOR DROPPING
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