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OLYMPICS

OF 1950

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1950.

WHAT'S IN IT, ANYWAY ?

THINK I'D TELL YOU? AND . FRIGHTEN OFF THE MUGS ?

REPORTING. THE ́U.S. SCENE:

OUT

KEEPING

STRANGERS

By C.V.R.THOMPSON

NEW YORK.

THE City fathers

of

And Seattle's city fathers are not asking for bids until ther

or passed a new one, making it coast, are afraid they will illegal for them to

soon be in the middle of municipal projects with

thing but American goods. another international fuss.

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ABOUR: Behind the scenes

It is all because they want to buy more equipment for here is keen campaigning

n

their new electric-power for a united labour front, Ageing station.

William Green's American Last time they bought Federation of Labour might American, even though a yet merge with Phillip Murray's Left-ish Congress of Industrial British firm, Ferranti's, Organisations to form an Ameri underbid the cheapest do- enn T. V. C. 18,000,000 strong, mestic offer by thousands Chances of of pounds.

the

campaign's success are better than, since the split between Right and Left in The Ferranti bld was turned 1035. down on technical grounds, but Why? The unions, from Whitehall to Washington happy about President Truman the charge

was made that the as they were just after his re- elly fathers had discriminated election, are begining to in favour of home

they must reek polillent power

am fold that it will of their own

put in another bid as soon as

not

Kay

Seattle advertises for its new MOTORING: Until now most rantracie. But this time the Americons have looked British Brm will not be the only upon the car as a means of foreign one in the field.

getting from here to thero, But Anxious to make this a test there are signs that at last the ease of their chances to compete younger drivers will coon take in a dollar market, nearly

every Marchali plan country up motoring as a will bld.

SELLING BRITAIN BIG ... TREVOR EVANS FINDS THE MEN WHO ARE DOING IT

Mr. ? had a brainwave

AMERICA BLOWS

BRITAIN'S TRUMPET

the

That's how I came to be reminded again of Henry Simon, Ltd., of Cheadle Henth,

near Stockport whose chief, Lord Simon of Wythenshawe, I met frequently during the war.

The welcome is there all right, It began with the chauffeur who met me at Stockport.

the

soon

Britain's restoration, the FROM NEW YORK

If he had not been there, I was subsequently told the come extracts from report adds, "will not be r triumph for British

would have phoned an important report Socialism, but for British station-master and his staff

business. Tho on Britain's industrial private

Socialists, who knew they plant for me. progress published in are licked, are no longer Courtesy however,

business fell to second place. Achieve the magazine For- obstructing

man's recapture of a large ment nosed it out. tune. Quotes:-

pari (not all) of his former

Mr Anthony Simon, mill a month." social power.

grandson of the firm's "That is the important founder tried to be many smart Ameri. fact about Britain in 1950. casual when he said that original capitalist flour mills designed here in cans used to argue The

15 rediscovering Cheadle Heath are

being constructed countries.

"D

URING the

war

that Britain could virtually country be ignored in post-war cal- capitalism." culations.

"Shorn backward

of Empire and

in technology,

Chief secret

sport In many communities

they aro nlready holding road races, and

national race under Grand Prix rules is being organised for this summer. All of which is good news for British car makers because Detroit does not make racing cars.

HOME: A factory which one day may make tho milk- man obsoleto han opened in Chicago. Its owner, John Stam- baugh, a dairy farmer, has found a method of Unning fresh milk. The milk keeps for six months.

mint

It can be delivered with the <roceries. Farmers

can

BIOTO

milk when they are getting too much and call it during the ituner months

IN A SHOWROOM I looked over a display of men's and women's clothes.

They all seemed to be of wool, cotton, or silk. But they were made of Like the latest fabric, orion. nylon, it is made of coal, petro-

um, water, and air. But advantage over nylon is that orlon is as durable and as warm as any real fabric.

Just as nylon hit sales of silk Dupont, the chemical firm which has perfected orlon, expects the new fabric to hit cotton and wool, and particularly wool,

It costs more than a guinea a yard now, and it will be several months before full production will make a price cut possible. But already one firm of tailors 1s promising men's aults of half vool and half orton of

for 17 guineas. Their advantage: They do not Extase and they nie washable.

They

THE FAME of Brumas the London Zoo cub, has finally New drawings WETC

mado. prend to America. Newspapers there was agreement, and magazines are publishing

pictures of her, Often months passed,

Perfect to the last detall-scale 50 to 1.

Many of them produce flour made to scale-one-fiftieth to feed a million people. of the actual size.

"To keep going here," he' said, "we need on an aver- wood and

The miller and Mr Lock- his experts can age an order for one new

make all the adjustments they like in minutes.

this with the Compare eld system. IIundreds drawings had to be made. They How THEN we went into the took weeks to prepare.

project in many There

drawing office, were malied to the miller. Only they were-com- experts could understand them. plete models of vast mills. Allerations were sent back. milling of "Exports

And this was their chief machinery from Britain." secret. The

Finally model of any "are worth sized mill in the world can went on, she would emerge from the IT all started fairly simply. he

mere population IT saying $2,000,000 a year.

We do be assembled to scale on Now the drawings are made Į POLICE CHARGES WCTO He said it these boards by the firm's last-after problem. This prophecy is around Whitehall that near most of that."

the mill has been

made in Atlanta, Georgia, not coming true.

and simply. the top of my personal list quietly

experts in three hours. ordered. They are made anercly against a restaurant manager, Pappos. Poppa's De- boasting.

for the record, and those who Angelo

"crime" He was caught serving "The British, especially of Things That Make

Someone's. inspiration, install the machinery.

a Negro soldier in a restaurant the Tories, frequently ex- pressing Reading were those unvarying reports

someone whom the firm. the interests of leam-

1 the miller cannot come to lcense for whites only. press nostalgia for Britain's

in from British teams sent pust 'greatness.' They may

tures, from all angles-for these NOTES are being exchanged or may not win new rights over to investigate Ameri-

between Glen can industry.

Cove Now" three-dimensional inodels fre to that word. But they are

the managing wood

York's Frinton-on-Sea, and' Washington. When a miller from, say, juos-is airmailed to him,

because Leonid likely to emerge from

To read them, you

get director, keen, quick-smiling,

massive enough to Calgary or Rotterdum ar-

Mororoz, Sovkt delegate to of U.S. subsidies period

the iden that on the other and.

TINO. with their independence re- side of the Atlantic "every suggest he used to be a rives at this office at noon footballer, who he outlines his project. He tells the size of his site. Its really got me excited.

"WO have equipped 60 the groove performance be percent of the world's new flour mills since the end of comes pretty tedious.

the war," he said.

War"

Won.

a

the

"Their new relative in- dependence will find them. as of cki, at the main cross ronds of world trading and strategic patterns.

Work sites

No

Mir? BUT it was Mr J. F. Lock- work, will only identify as Cheadle, then an album of pic-

thing is always better-au- Rugby tomatically."

And this needle-stuck-in-

Then Sam spoke. Sum is Government man who

Research

location in relation to dock NOT much prospect for

and floors be. boratories."

that?"

han too much furniture, Mr Mororoz has rented the estate of the late J. P. Morgan

reon Glen Cove's outskirts. His are stipulated that only one peat orders, perhaps, on a

family could or railroad.

job tint should function for

occupy the great 30 or 40

mansion years. Mr Lockwood's

Luko Mayor

Mercadante When he returns from eyes twinkle. "We modernise

to the State lunch, there it is. H sees and invent and make ourselves began protesting

Heartment today that 71. out-of-date. Sec

been moved into Throughout the world. I his mill. He examines the pointed to a new cathedral-like beds have

risk nearly 100 feet the house, which seemed a lot "Despite profound changes i

repeat that. exact spot on which every tower, asked him to time

placed, its re- across the bowling Green. "An for one family. "Can a UNO in those patterns, a sure spends much of his

his machine is practically lost He

to our research la-delegate disregard our zoning Inwa?" he asked. Washington instinct is leading Britain touring the spots where the breath as he rattled through Intion to the others, and to extension

floors above

has promised to look into it. - to the best available bar- nation's work is really done, current

sites.... work

There is States.

nothing automatic United in Canada. "There's ane firm

about new orders, though. HOW BUSINESS; Crooner said, Cheshire," he

"who Holland, Portugal, Belgium,

sees the grain "Whenever we hear of a new

Frank Sinatra cancelled his part of the

singing engagements after suf- growing contrast are masters in the treat most of the South Ameri-

can Republics, Mozambique. skip berthed at the millside project It any

world,' Mr Lockwood con-fering a throat haemorrhage.... British between

recovery ment of foreign visitors.

added wharf, or the grain trains

fcssco, Lockwood

Hollywood is to start aiming "And," he

....Mr concluded. and Continental doldrums

ongaged on 70 on the adjoining marshall spend sleepless nights until the "Buldog Drummond"

again, ing yards.

order is landed."

and this Ume Walter Pidgeon convinces the British that "the firm sells its goods to "We

WI Mer United States, to mills at present." their policy of detachment. the

They are models,

The order is usually "landed."will play the part... of nothing small There is

Disney is trying to buy the (from Europe) has been Canada-all over the world.

But they are all

-London Express Servico) creen rights to Peter Pan." about most of these orders. course. right all along."

in fact."

gaining and balancing posi- tion among the nations.

""The

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