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COVENTRY: A BOOM

Thirteen telephone calls

could not produce & bedroom for the night. The fourteenth

nor no

ather town.

By Neville Randall

Shopmen happy

TOWN Good M

It cost £1,350 before the war. It went for £6,000,

We thought

the ceiling had been reached two years ago but' prices

#tilt

Bro

Every week a 100 people Sharing the boom

unearthed a double room, try makes 25 per cent more than on shoes here than anywhere else | rising." paid for next morning with his counterpart in almost any [in Britain." à double bill 73

come to Coventry hoping to share It is neither Blackpool

in the boom. Since the end of Brighton,

prog- Who else shares In Bils It has 110 pler,

the war the population has in- | sell night life,

The sale of beer over ereased by 32,000. museum, art perlty? по

What prevents you from join gallery, central library or even Britain as a whole has fallen by a big store. Its shops are. in about a third since the post-waring in, 1007

peak.

Coven- prefabs, its cathedral in ruins.

The landlord of

went to a house agent and try's biggest commercial hotel is asked him how long it would take selling more now than he washim to find me a house to let. in the days when he knew he "House to let!" he echoed could get rid of everything" that | "That's a thing of the past. We the browery could let him have. get a 100 inquiries week. The manager of the biggest Wo've even given up keeping a shoe shop is just 群益 happy. list. House to buy? Yes. If you "Business is up again on last pay three to four times its value It is one of Britain's boom year," he confessed. "There In 1930. We've just sold a four | London's, too. towns-Coventry,

seems to be more money to spend | bed-roomed house in Kenilworth.

But it exports more per head than any other town in the coun- try. Its craftsmen carn more than in any town but London: And It grows by 6,000 people year.

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Everything in Coventry is got- ting blager every day. Britain's No. 1 export industry is motor- cars, and Coventry maltes A quarter of themi

A

If you owned 'n house In- Coventry before the war you can

and share in the boom without being an enginees. you are just setting up

house. you thay have to mortgage your resources for years to coma or wait for a slump.

And if you are a housewife you have already found it cheapor to pay bus or train fares to places an for awny as Northampton to do your shopping. Coventry pays f highest wages outside London. Its prices are as expensive

That is life in a boom town!

How strong is the Red Air Force?

The biggest single firm is Stan- dards. They have set up 01 record every month this year, In May they made 8,000 care and tractors, and per cent of their total exports for In this one month sent abroad 00 the whole of 1030. In June they expect to make more,

There is no secret about how this is done. incentive system."

"said the Stan- dard spokesman. "We pay force and the higher rate for the -samo Job than any other town. And we get a higher production."

"We work on the

The Soviet Air Force is an integral part of the Soviet Army and Navy and there- fore mainly a tactical wea- pon, though the fighter air

long-range

bomber force may recently have been given more inde-

The formation of a multi- national United Nations force will no doubt be an out-new production come of the present conflict in Korea, But it cannot be formed in time to be of much value there.. The American and South Korean troops are conducting a slow and gallant withdrawal. They will in the end probably abandon the South Western part of the peninsula and concentrate on a substantial bridgehead in

pendence. High wages have attratied to South Keisho Province, cover- Coventry the highest concen ing the port and main rail-tration of technical ability in the country. The reason for the way out of Pusan. At the high wages themselves is not same time they are building quite so simple. up men and material, impos- ing heavy losses on the in- vaders, and reducing the tre- mendous margin of superi- ority on the ground enjoyed by the aggressors. By the time the delaying action has accomplished its purpose and the line to be held is reached, the American ground forces will doubtless be adequate for the limited perimeter in- volved.

When peace come

When pence came to Britain in 1945, Coventry laid out its fac-

torics for the battle for exports. New plece rates had to be ixed, Even workers admitted that they had to alm at something a little wartime average of £11 to £12 lower than the skilled engineer's

a week WITHOUT overtime,

But there was another factor. No Inctory could get

enough materials to give its workers what is known as a clear rún. So the new rates allowed for the when stoppages and delay

Russlo has gathered experience of special air tasks in the Spanish Before and Greek civil wars. World War II the Russian Air Force was built up on aircraft capable of operating with the in- fantry or with armour on the Gernian model.

By William Courtenay

Russia did not develop a great, strategic bomber force like the RAF Bomber Command or the US

20th Strategle Air Force in the Pacific War,

In Europe

Her basic fighter is the Yak, which is produced in many types, the latest of which Is jet, Another jet with swept-back

One way to get the plus prices down

By George Edinger

tax

wings la the M.I.G. with a German engine.

Entirely new testament.

As the U.S. said to Britain: Kum over to Korea and help us.

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Policy (

China The Amerlura

reports Association, contemporary, has released tho text of a secret Chinese-Russian agreement.

the

Details of the agreement having beca published In world Press months ago, I must regard this, as the best current example of American na-bow.

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•

"Refuse to leave Burma." That's rubbish.

"JAMCO. PAMCO.merger being negotiated."

I hear on Indifferent authority that the new body will be called" the Great Pamjamdrum.

Hong Kong has no hesitation in using gadgets arid appliances (rom any part of the world. Yesterday I notleed a young buck, with his long. raven locks kapt couple of place with kirbigripa

This is what is known as being

in

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✩

UK. B.20 Superfortress bom- bers which lost their way and landed

Russia after the war hair to all the ages. in were used by Russian neronauti. cal engineers for copying.

"Small Arsenal Captured In Last year they produced versions seen Pahang."

No, Myrtle, this is not another at the Moscow May Day Parad

xoccer catastrophe. Most of the and it may be presumed they

have

gone possess some squadrons of them British players this year.

Bogota.

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me Isn't

The irate customer shouted at During the war there was no evidence that Russian airmen the apprentice: "You told" were trained

in long-range you could cut hair This bombing by day or by night, hair-cutting, it's barberism." lee- Professor Greenhalgh,

Presklent Truman, daily turing on Russian war industry commandeering new storage to US. reserve oflcers recently estimated the Soviet Air Force had 19,000 aircraft with a reserve of 10,000.

North Korean airmen will be limited in numbers and will have been trained at Manchurian air- fields to which the Japanese Air Force was driven by the bombing of Japan. And Russian pliots car rying North Korean passports are probably employed today to rein force the few Korean airmen.

The capture of a number of German scientists has enabled the

Oghters.

Pictures of some of her

types Dghter

are In possession of American British Intelligence Staffs.

No instruments

jet

the and

pace for history's biggest surplus tock at grain, eggs, potatoes, tried milk, etc.. assures a fittery nation that there are no signs of

food shortage.

This sort of thing makes the outside world really fed up.

"Tentative plans for Europe evacuation set."

Sounds like a good chance for man-short Austraila to pick up a few million immigrants.

Senator states the Korean war may last nine months.

That 13 Indeed a pregnant statement,

"U.S. gels first clear picture of ask ahead."

This is what is known in military circles as a task force.

You scera to think I'm #

us is perfect, -mye

Whether General Mac.

alarm- Arthur would like to have an

Adoption by the General £6 a head a year looks international force to take their own, were forced to be idle.

workers, through no fault of Council of the British TUC of ingly, heavy, by comparison,

Put another way (and the part in the break-out when

Today the shortage of ma- a new policy on wage res American end of DEEC do put Russians to develop their jet the time comes is a matter terials is at last coming to antraints draws attention to the it that way) the purchase best left to his own decision.

end. The workers have a clear internationally debated costs eight out of every 10 people Britain nearly £12 a run. The actual wages are the question:

in this But the London "Observer" highest slice the war,

Can the freeze

year. expressos what is undoubt-

Ask any Coventry Arin

withstand the first shock of or

Ironically only a third of this edly a general and genuine organisation what these wages devaluation?

sum comes from the heavy taxes desire on the part of the Brire and they change the subject. For it is just being felt, Whole on comforts and luxuries. Out of The secretary of the Coventry sale costs are 10 per cent higher some £300,000,000 brought in by Amalgamated Engineers' Union than in July 1945, retail costs purchase inx last year £217,000,- If her civil aviation is any perfect fool"

"None of was less reticeni. "The average are up, so far, by two per cent. 000 derives from those articles guide she has a strange way of

taxed at 33 1/3 per earnings for skilled engineers in

They dear." cent-the | Using transport planes. other towns," he said, "ore Hitle

things most needful to the wage fly low over the vast rolling more than 35, an hour, In

plains of Russia which rench Coventry they are 55. On -14

Cutlery for instance, soap, to the Ural Mountains. All the hour week this represents a This could hit ware earners clothes, bedding, and utility stock- flying is by visual contact with

ground The real luxuries, those the without two ways. If wages stood frozen ings. weekly wage of

by in. overtime. One firms pays 6s." while prices went up, living stan- taxed at 100 per cent, barely struments.

Even the most cautious and dards would be threatened. But produced enough to make good Whether, therefore, she not-to-be-quoted estimate was if wages rose along with prices, the losses on the ground nuts large forces trained to fly by In-

drop, scheme. Coven- all money values would

and savings would cease to be sale.

But there is one obvious wag!

ich to phy a part, if only a token part, in the ground fighting as well as in Naval and air action. It is un- necessary to bother about the jeers in one of the Moscow papers, which suggests that Britain is using her difficulties in Malaya, and France her troubles in Indo-China, excuses. They are realities, not excuses,

Even so, both countries

that

an

as

in

engineer

whole is to settle the Kash- mir problem. That will be no gut,

for it,

Two-fold threat

Kind that, hurt

carner.

Cannibalism

of overy 50.

the

and not

has

struments or in the dark; or able to carry out long-range bomber

attacks by night 1s doubtful. And

her

the grealest test of all of the-eßclency-of-an-air-force--- technical maintenance on the gro ground-it likely to prove biggest headache if she should do much flying from Asiatic bases. Oriental peasants are never much good at this task requiring high engineering precision work. The Japanese, among Orientals, were the solo exception.

In any trial of strength, there-

Air Force would be able to throw

into the fight many thousands of wartime-type planes; some jet squadrons of fighters; but they would largely fly in co-operation with ground forces.: +

So much

travel

--Belgium's --- wage-earners -- were Immediate reduction of the would undoubtedly like to less useful than Pandit in a similar plight in 1946. But humblest category of purchase have forces on the ground Nehru's representations for a instead of pressing for wage in- tax would mean some loss to the fighting alongside the Amert- speedy and peaceful settle creases they turned

But no all their revenue,

one can gauge Every tax swallow cans. The conflict in Korea ment of the Korean problem energies towards reducing prices, what loss.

"They did reduce prices. And, an undue proportion of its yield has overnight removed the by securing the withdrawal

spurred by the psychological in administration costs.

That is why centre of tension from the of the North Koreans to the effect of seeing living costs go

the Britain of Indo-China border to a thou- 38th Parallel. Stalin will, of down, Belgium shot back to pre- 1874--when income tax stood a sand miles further North. It course, make the most of this war plenty (more fairly shared) 2d. In the £-needed to pay only before any other country In one person in every 1,700 to be is believed there have been chance to pose as a lover of Europe.

a Civil Servant, while to adfore, on a large scale the Russian large Chinese troop move- peace. But mere wards count] Planners foretold a crash, and minister today's taxes of 9. in ments Northward from the for little now: deeds alone must, I imagine, still be waiting, the requires one person out provinces bordering on Hong have any value in the pre-

And, the material loss to the Kong and Indo-China. It sent scheme of things.`

Exchequer might be made good would be a matter of no Meanwhile, it would take

by the psychological stimulus of Keeing prices falla stimulus great difficulty to send a many months to organize an Britain in 1950, is better placed | Britons have not yet experienced: small token force to Korea, | international force similar to to reduce prices than Belgium Leen' Blum's Socialist" Govern- and replace it by relays from the Fifth Army, composed of was in 1940. Marshall Ald figures ment created an amazing impetus the Middle East and Singa-six major nations, which kind that hurt the wage-carnet prices 10 per cent in 1947.

show that in direct laxes, the to French production by reducing pore. Anglo-American soli- fought in the Italian cam-most, are higher in Britain than I happened to be in Luxem- darity is taken for granted paign. Such a force ought elsewhere in Western Europe. burg when a similar ordinance in any real crisis, however: really to have been organised In Austria they devour 10 per was passed and posted In

cent of the national Income; "In shops. As a moral demonstration, of during the Palestine up- Belgium 13 per cent; in France 13| The whole outlook of that little course, a real United Nations heaval. By the time it could per cent; in Italy eight per cent; in country changed overnight force would be of more be of any value in a campaign 14 per cent; in Sweden 10 per had vanished, and by the year's Holland 15 per cent; in Norway! Within, wecks the Black Market value. But everybody knows in Korea, it would in all procent; and in Britain 17 per cent. end that little land which fost a the peculiar problems of sup-bability be unnecessary. That Clearly If that burden were third of all its wealth in the war ply, language, training, is not to say such a force lightened Britain could stand up was back on a 1939 standard, liaison, etc. In the end de should not be organised. This to the full blast of devaluation cision rests with the United crisis in Korea wont be the power of her people.

and still préserve the purchasing ATOM-POWERED last by any mearis. It may One way to lighten the loadin

"SUBMARINE well be needed sooner rather might be to bring down purchase Most coun- tox on necessities. than later.

Meanwhile, the United Few peoples would accept O bared model for an atom-power- States' forces in the fleld in cheerfully the underprivileged ed-submarine engine will begin More important, perhaps, is Korea display the United position of British citizens, who at Arco, Texas

In their own country, can sac Senator: Brien McMahon (Demo- the global aspect of the Nations flag alongside their foreign visitors buying in shops erat, Connecticut) announced to- strategic position. A nerve own. They represent more that operate the export scheme day. war has now been launched than themselves or their own articles that would cost twice as Chairman of the

Senator McMahon, who

Senate-Houd at a variety of vulnerable nation, or even their special anuch.

Abroad the less painful par-

-Committee, predicted and tender spots all along obligations under the armis afel is a salce tax. This ultima that a tremendous improvement the free frontiers with, the tice measures. They are in tely falls on the customer, too.

in submarine performance is in the offing. closed curtain countries. truth n national force repre. In Switzerland the amount is

The Arco added openly to your bill. Sweden, Yugoslavia, Greece, senting an international pur

You cannot compare the inel which other engines are and Persia are targets of pose, sanctioned by the Unit-dence of sales tax in Europe copied, is one of the experimental Soviot menaces. The altua ed Nations and upheld by the with the effect of purchase tax in projects for atomic ship propul

Atomic Energy tion may become a trifle heat whole of the free world. A Britain, so it is impossible to de-ion on which ed in Germany, too, The Bri-[ moral - demonstration

ride how far It explains Britain's Commission has been working Of high level of indirect taxation. tish and other major Governé greater value than any inter ments should shape thoir national reinforcement of the course.... accordingly, and Americans in Korea would be match the measures the Unit measured by the Home Gov Most countries lump the yield ed States is taking at Home Feramentato"

The statement diaplowed that match those of such taxes into the same cate

gory as stamp duties and various Senator McMahum, members of to prepare for contingencies; being taken by the United other taxes on transactions.!!! the ABC and high Navy officers The best contribution India States at Home, which Pre-But where the yield of ✨ sales will go to the New London, Com: and Paklatan can make to thesident Truman li expected to tax is published asparately, as in neticut, aubmarine base next

Castón (186, a hand-a-yeur) and Tunday to discurs; the progress ML strengthening of themselves diacioso in detail Inter this theBUR, (langa head: year), being made on atomic power for and the Commonwealth as:a" wosk,

States Joint Chiefs of Staff, who have already received numerous offers of ground forces, and will no doubt de- cide wisely.

trics pay a sort of purchase-tax.

Alarming figure

Washington, July 17. Construction work on a land-

Atomic

next month,

prototypo, from

to be

luxury

at so

little

cost

The project is being carried at US,

since early 1947.

on jointly for the AEC by the Argonne National Laboratories and the - Westinghouse; Corpora- ton va

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