The Singapore Free Press, 21 February 1952
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Title Section19 1952-02-21 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA y, IS..T-M. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21* 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.19 words
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Article389 1952-02-21 1 I Bid for collective Security in Canal Zone ri\i! Egyptian Prime Minister, Aly Maher Pasha, said last night Egypt must enter into '\[utJ> negotiations" with Britain to end their dispute on the British status in Egypt. Ik favoured a collective security pact iritli the Western Powers,389 words
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Article103 1952-02-21 1 IPOH, Thurs. p. [TS attacked Kampar U I Station at ck this morning t trued down the building as well fwn which was rtth about 150 tons )t la) constables and i ointsman were wounded. n seriously, in the irk v iich was carried out ten bandits.103 words
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Article42 1952-02-21 1 G Dwight Eisenhower '4 I he NATO Council ■eeUng in Lisbon yesterday lake immediate steps to a network of West sL-flelds or run the leaving the European ground army they were Drejarm? to provide helptess gainst pc^ible Russian air U.P.U.P. - 42 words
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Article19 1952-02-21 1 Th- French authorities in -ave allowed Indoa*»a 1.500 Indians to in»ease monthly remittances \> families to Rs. 100 ReuterReuter - 19 words
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Article182 1952-02-21 1 QUERY ON C.G. IN COMMONS LONDON, Thurs. \JR. Stanley Awbery, Labour, asked in the House of Common s if the Secretary for Colonies had now arrived at a decision about the position of the CommissionerGeneral of Southeast Asia. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. He also asked in what particulars he intended toReuter - 182 words
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Article53 1952-02-21 1 PORt 1 SAID. Thurs A SPOKESMAN for the Suez Canal Company said yesterday canal traffic Is back to normal for the first time since the outbreak of the British-Egyptian dispute. Egyptian searchlight and mooring crews have returned to work and the canal is now matntafntpg regularA.P. - 53 words
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Article69 1952-02-21 1 LONDON, Thurs. gUZABETH TAYLOR failed to bring her divorce papers from the United States and so she may not be able to marry Michael Wilding today as planned. The 19-year-old film beauty arrived here by plane on Tuesday night for her marriage to Wilding, 39.A.P. - 69 words
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Article15 1952-02-21 1 Italy's air force will get "combat-tried" American let fighters from Korea15 words
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92 1952-02-21 1 POITIERS. France, iHurs. GENTLE Marie Besnard, the 55-ycar-old "smiling widow of London" who today faces 11 charges of murder, was found guilty here yesterday of forging a £30 postal money order. A court room Jammed with reporters, photographers illegally cashing the money order belonging92 words
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Article, Illustration39 1952-02-21 1 PARISIAN cats went to the cinema recently. Free seats were given to all arriving with cats to see "Rhnbarbe," the story of a gutter cat which became the heir of an eccentric millionaire. Popper picture.Popper - 39 words
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164 1952-02-21 1 WASHINGTON, Thursday. PRESIDENT TRUMAN said yesterday that he had 1 not made any commitments to Britain to send troops anywhere in the world. The White House announced that Mr. Truman had authorised that statement to be made. It was in the nature of aReuter - 164 words
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Article86 1952-02-21 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. A SINGAPORE girl, Lim Siew Hwa, was killed in a crash with an oncoming car at Tembeling Road, Katong. yesterday. She died before the ambulance arrived. Slew Hwa was walking with two other girls at the time of the accident. Two Chinese86 words
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Article240 1952-02-21 1 WANTED-A CHAMPION FOR THE QUEEN LONDON. Thurs. A 600-year-old court will meet soon to select a "champion of England" from the ranks of British nobility to challenge and fight anyone at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II who publicly opposes her rule. The court has to decide petitions made byReuter - 240 words
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Article32 1952-02-21 1 Five people were killed and 15 injured when a false alarm of a fire caused a stampede in a crowded movie house in Lagos, Nigeria, last night.- ReuterReuter - 32 words
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Article112 1952-02-21 1 LONDON, Thursday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, told the Commons yesterday that Britain's rearmament programme was almost 10 per cent, short of its goal. He said about £120,000,000 would not be spent out of the £11,250.000,000 which it had been hoped to devote to rearmamentReuter - 112 words
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Article16 1952-02-21 1 The West German Chancellor, Dr. Adenauer said in Bonn yesterday West Ger-16 words
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269 1952-02-21 1 BANGKOK, Thursday. rpHE leader of 10,000 Chinese Nationalist troops in ""> north-east Burma potential trigger for a new war in Asia was reported in Formosa yesterday to get help for a withdrawal. A highly placed foreign official said Gen. Li Mi went toA.P. - 269 words
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Article78 1952-02-21 1 SANTIAGO, ThUTS. A NEWSPAPER here reported yesterday "that a Chilean air force plane, flying near the Argentine frontier, had seen two explosions "similar to atomic bomb explosions." The first was a column of smoke about 65 feet in circumference "from the top of which rose the characteristic78 words
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Article38 1952-02-21 1 Striking bus drivers attacked Teheran police with automobile cranks in front of the home of the Prime Minister of Persia, Mohammed Mossadegh, yesterday. The drivers were warned to disperse or their licences would be revoked. A.P.38 words
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Article39 1952-02-21 1 Mr. Clement Attlee will be one of the speakers at the dinner of the Philadelphia Fellowship Commission at Fellowship House Philadelphia, on March SI. The theme of the speeches will be "The Free World Speaks" ReuterReuter - 39 words
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Article221 1952-02-21 1 Free Press Staff Reporter **FHE Singapore Gov- ernment is probably unaware that a powerful circle has worked tremendously hard to wreck the badminton hall project for personal reasons, with the result that the names of prominent and wealthy persons are conspicuous by their absence221 words
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Article14 1952-02-21 1 Egypt Is planning to buy £100,0000,000 worth of goods from Russia U.P.U.P. - 14 words
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Advertisement55 1952-02-21 1 irH;tt;JttIE!MBKSr s PHONE SS4tt SINGAPORE-C HOLBROOK'S I SAUCES, SOUPS SAVOURS j II FOR MANY YEARS, THE A I HOUSE OF HOLBROOK -^g. I HAS BEEN FAMOUS HHttp L THROUGHOUT THE COMH MON WEALTH FOR: |B fJJ?3S m^\ \*it fc* J^X S DRESSINGS IIH k i"^^'-jl lAUC E^ -^1 WKMB ETC.,55 words
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990 1952-02-21 2 [■flOTflfyjflff^^ UNDER REVIEW QUICK LOOKS I A PENNY FOR THE 1 HARP. By Oliver Onions. I I (Michael Joseph). i Oliver Onions, most 1 readable exponent of the f I modern historical novel, I conducts a further pic- I turesque, expedition I through the990 words
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Article396 1952-02-21 2 Ham, From First To Last The Sign Of Jonah. By Nancy Hale. (Heinemann). EVEN if it is a masterpiece of straight ham, it comes over," says a -character on page 38f. "I predict for it quite a success." He is talking about Hope Crocker's second play, the one that made396 words
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Article, Illustration22 1952-02-21 2 Kerima French-Arabian star of "Outcast of the Islands/' the film of Conrad's book, seen at. the London Zoo with a boa constrictor.22 words
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Article700 1952-02-21 2 WINE WOMEN-& PERSIANS GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON reviews a new translation of a famous poem. Omar Khayyam: a new version based upon recent discoveries. By Arthur J. Arberry. (Murray). OYMNS Ancient and Modern excepted, the most thumbed, misquoted quatrain in English poetry is: A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A700 words
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Article155 1952-02-21 2 A RECIPE worth fol- lowing if you want to write a best-seller is to think up, a good idea for an ending and then sit down and write the story backwards. If this sounds difficult consider the circulation 'figures of books by a cheerful,155 words
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Article107 1952-02-21 2 THE MAKING OF FRANCE. Marie-Madeleine Martin, 21/^-, Eyre Spottiswoode. A study of the origins and development of the Idea of national unity. GEOGRAPHY OF HUNGER. Josiie De castro, 18/'-, Gollancz. A study of malnutrition, disease, famine, death, continent by continent and country by country. IT'S AN OLD LANCASHIRE107 words
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Article, Illustration673 1952-02-21 2 GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON - This is Just my Tot of Rum! GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON Lieutenant Hornblower. By C. S. Forester. Michael Joseph). WHAT is. there about the illustrious Hornblower that appeals to all of us? This to begin with: He is not he is indeed, very far from being a copybook hero. The serpent673 words
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Advertisement150 1952-02-21 2 ALWAYS ASK FOR NATIONAL LOOSE LEAF BOOKS The illustration shews one of the large range of P Ng Bco«s m IN EVERY SIZE FOR EVERY PURPOSE Manufactured by THE NATIONAL LOOSE IEAF CC LIB .-*>--"• Representative throughout Smgipcre anc f>.-. I"" DONALD MOORE, OLDHAM HALL. SINGAPQREfIj aODOBAN TABLETS NATURE'S DEODORANT150 words
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Miscellaneous161 1952-02-21 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR JgORN today, it is likely that You might very well Jn a ugu yon will have almost mte some new ideas yourself, mediumistic powers, and un. It may take time before they less you recognise this and are accepted. Bat if you learn to make use of161 words
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Miscellaneous93 1952-02-21 2 New Crossword No. 591 CLUES ACROSS 1. A go-between for horse and rider (6). 4. We are adjacent to the E. Riding (4). 8. More than a couple of pounds for a clothes protector (7). 9. She is unabashed, unbeaten (3). 10. In which to try to drown a cold93 words
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Article32 1952-02-21 3 i:r S| oi some 30 B«nbers the fanatical Jaidajan Islam* 1 was oflQcialI SDnoonced in Teheran anectlon with the Ktwmpted aNsa^ination of a rr-.'.r.b- ,f the National Oil Hosaeto Fatemi.32 words
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Article191 1952-02-21 3 200,000 WAR' SET PROBLEM TOKYO, Thursday. fHK largest newspaper in Japan yesterday 1 editorially demanded that the UJS. and Japanese authorities do something about -Japanese prostitutes catering to American and about occupation born "international orphans of war" now totalling 200,000, »ho d<> not know their fathers or mothers. Ihe paper,A.P. - 191 words
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124 1952-02-21 3 'The good old cane will do the job' II NOON, Huns. qa. D educalion? 0 said an English f oUy. Pui a police station. a J England, of St. H.inds worth, 8.. Id 250 mem- nal Union A shilling's i i v raid do most ils a world of v124 words
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Article73 1952-02-21 3 NEW YORK, Thurs. |X>URTEEN hand-written r letters from Abraham Lincoln to his "most intimate friend," Joshua Fry Speed, were sold at an auction for $35,000. The letters, which brought the highest price in the first hour of the auetion of the collection of the late Oliver Barrett,73 words
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Article37 1952-02-21 3 Elizabeth Taylor, 19. screen star, said yesterday that she will marry Michael Wilding. 39. British actor, "at the end of thU week" in Kent. England, at the estate of her god- f ather,— AP.37 words
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Article, Illustration217 1952-02-21 3 ARMY TO RAISE KIT ALLOWANCE ALLOWANCES made to Army officers on being commissioned are to be increased substantially. And an announcement will be made of similar increases for R.AJF. officers. Up to now It was impossible for a newly commissioned officer to buy uniform and other kit without217 words
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Article60 1952-02-21 3 Upper Austria has ordered movies, hotels, schools, churches and other places of assembly to close because of the epidemic of foot and mouth livestock disease which has stricken 1.193 farms The first instance of the disease spreading from animals to human beings was reported in Vienna when60 words
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Article32 1952-02-21 3 Two former Communist Party officials were shot immediately after a public trial in Hopeh Prorince, North China, in which they were sentenced to death on charges of corruption. Reuter AAP.AAP - 32 words
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Article34 1952-02-21 3 Visitors to the summer Olympic Games in Helsinki this year will not require entrance or residence visas. A passport or other identity document approved by the Finnish authorities will do.- ReuterReuter - 34 words
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Article49 1952-02-21 3 Mystery tremors near Red border Mysterious earth tremors are disturbing east Uusimaa (also called Nyland) province lying about half-way between Helsinki and the Russian border. Helsinki scientists said that as seismographs in Helsinki University have registered the tremors they believe Uusimaa is bavin? a series of minor earthquakes. ReuterReuter - 49 words
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Article, Illustration72 1952-02-21 3 The American Cyanide Company announced in Atlantic yesterday that India's first dyestuil and pharmaceutical plant will begin operating in March.— U.P ptCIOIT. King TaUi of Jordan is fre eted by Premier Akidt de Gasperi of Italy on Us arrival la Rome. The 4#-year-old Kiaw, ircomponkid by hit QneenA.P. - 72 words
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Article54 1952-02-21 3 LONDON, Thins. WHAT the world needs, said Mahomet Andriev to himself, Is a nut cracker that wastes no time getting to the kanaky district, he invented a Stakhanovite nut cracker. It cracks 1,320 pounds of nuts an hour, replacing 120 men who had been opening nuts54 words
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Article136 1952-02-21 3 £2-LESSON FOR RUDE BUS DRIVER I LONDON, ThuFS. A LONDON bus driver was fined £2 and ordered to pay three guineas costs for failing to behave in a civil i and orderly manner. "Rude- ness is never justified," comI mented th e magistrate. Edward C. Wood, of Craven i Park-road,136 words
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Article41 1952-02-21 3 A British Canberra jet bomber flew from London to Tripoli, Libya, at a record average speed of 538 miles an hour this week. The distance flown was 1.415 miles, and the flying time was two hours 45 minutes.- ReuterReuter - 41 words
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Article285 1952-02-21 3 LONDON, Thursday. I>USSIA has a jet torpedo plane. It is a version MM> of the new twin-jet Tu-12 bomber, recently reported over Eastern Germany. The nary version can carry two 1,8501b. torpedoes or a varied bomb load, and is already in service. The army285 words
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Article251 1952-02-21 3 liit-Wwt nlßwikl^, South dealer. NORTH OAQJ 4 I 2 A A WEST BAST 4AJIIIS 4 K Q 3 2 V A 7 2 <? 0 K S 0 io 7 6 K Q 10 4JHU The bidding: South West North Bast 54 Db! Sy p"» P«ss Dbl. AH251 words
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Article33 1952-02-21 3 The Philippines army announced that 73 Communist Huks had been killed in Central Luzon since Jan. 1. The army further claimed that 255 Huk barracks were destroyed and *>»** "arsenals" uncovered A.PA.P. - 33 words
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Article15 1952-02-21 3 Experts believe an antipolto vaccine will be discovered within two yean, South Aus-15 words
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Article324 1952-02-21 3 munu KONG, Thursday. TOE slave camps of Red China are jammed with x millions who are being "reformed by labour". So far little has leaked out about the operation of these camps. A copy of the Nanning Red paper, Kwangsi Jin Pao, gives a few324 words
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Article94 1952-02-21 3 Flew 12,000 miles to wed pen-pal MANILA, Thurs. A PEN-pal who travelled 12,000 miles from Chicago. 111., to meet hfe bride, will return home without her— at least for the time being. Annand U Sosa, Ffttpinobom American who has lived in the United States 28 years, saw a picture of94 words
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Article65 1952-02-21 3 Egypt and Czechoslovakia nave signed a trade agreement in Cairo by which Czechoslovakia will supply 20,000 tons of sugar to a total value of about £1,312,800— a price of 64 Egyptian pounds a ton. The sugar will be in exchange for an equal value ofReuter - 65 words
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Article32 1952-02-21 3 Two Ukrainians went on trial in Munich yesterday before an American court charged with the attempted murder of "General" Dionid Gulay, exiled Cossack leader of the Ukrainian Liberation Movement ReuterReuter - 32 words
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Article91 1952-02-21 3 Hone kong PICTURES IN U.K. SHOW Mi LONDOK, Thur* ENTRIES from Hone Kong are among those from M countries which have been selected for display at the 56th annual exhibition of the Birmingham Photographic Society, which is now on. Prominent among 25« prints is "Fair Gold" by Yu Chiu-cheung a91 words
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Advertisement78 1952-02-21 3 ***** S when you fly "Strato" Clipper* UK* LEG ROQM pan Amukuk9% sleeperette* are tpaeed Mr.,! a[>ait on the °«m1 leg «x>m- You can lch oa «»d not toueh the seat in front! Ll° R t- CUNING ROOM Pm American's Sleeperettes *>^ more than standard airline seats stretch out a78 words
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Advertisement68 1952-02-21 3 -s-A DANCE-s-IN AID OF ST. ANDREWS CATHEDRAL FUNDS WILL BE HBO '<^**^ VICTORIA asaia^| MEMORIAL HALL TUESDAY, 26th FEBRUARY i > FROM U*^^B P.M. MIDNWHT^^^ DANCE BAND OF THE ROYAL SPOT PRIZES Tickets, Price $100 ait iMihiili jfc Robinson Co., Ltd., Raffles Place, Y.M.C.A. Stamford Road. Y.W.C.A. Raffles Quay. Union68 words
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Miscellaneous261 1952-02-21 3 Radio SINGAPORE 1.00 pjn. light Music Medley— Andre Kostelanetz ft his Orchestra; 1.30 Time Signal A Hews; 1.45 Dance Music played by Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra; 2CO English Schools Broadcast; 3.00 University of the Air; 5.00 Programme: in Malay; 6.15 Time Signal Propramme Summary; 6.17 Calling All Hospitals tilth requests for261 words
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Article933 1952-02-21 4 10 miles from the hustle and bustle of Nairobi city is the world's most unique zoo in..., Here the animals live their own lives, untrammelled by bars, says Dudley Hawkins. T<HE Nairobi Royal National Park is the world's most unique Zoo— and it lies only 10 minutes' journey933 words
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537 1952-02-21 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Feb. 21, 1952. On long leave A BLOW is aimed at a hardy colonial tradition. Dr. L. C. Hill, the expert who came to Singapore to report on local government reform, proposes that the system of tours of duty and long leave should be scrapped.537 words
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124 1952-02-21 4 LETTER TO .THE EDITOR ASIANS— AND A.A. T'HE Singapore and Johore branch of the Automobile Association of Malaya says in its annual report that Asians are under the Impression that they "do "not receive the same attention as Europeans." The branch goes to great pains to deny this "most emphatically.""124 words
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Article65 1952-02-21 4 THE Czechoslovak train driver who raced 'his train to freedom across the Iron Curtain frontier has arrived in America together with the fireman who made the freedom bid with him. Both men have taken their families to the States and now both have lobs with American firms— helDins:65 words
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Article523 1952-02-21 4 POLOTOCO - POLOTOCO J»HE King's death apparently caught even the 8.8.C. napping. A London paper wrote: "There was not only sorrow but consternation at Broadcasting House. Nothing was ready for such an emergency. Nothing had been prepared. No radio programmes were stand ing by. No one knew what523 words
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Article616 1952-02-21 4 HENRY THODY - THIS IS A DEMOCRACY HENRY THODY IN TURKEY TODAY By Shouts a street urchin I SAW a Istanbul street urchin sneaking a free ride on the rear of one of the city's rattling, archaic tramcars. At a tram-stop a severe, jack-booted policeman blew* his whistle and dragged down the youngster.616 words
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Article266 1952-02-21 4 RUSSIA is speeding expansion of a network of jet airfields behind the northern and eastern approaches to Yugoslavia *nd facing Turkey across the Bulgarian border and the Black Sea, These airfields are being built in Hungary, Rumania. and Bulgaria. Some are already finished and Russian266 words
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Article269 1952-02-21 4 RICHARD L. C. DEVERALL - China' s Opium 'Racket' RICHARD L. C. DEVERALL By QOMMUNJs, market V .V. c a targ^ sc^ China bein foreign sea* to b muniti Comn Ply val muni i outside ci th Th( v the drugs and money to ft sales .ft u fe dollars Z > needed by chtot269 words
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Advertisement10 1952-02-21 4 WEK fr oPA %xr]Bk PHONE: 3364 M-21, HIGH ST., STORE-610 words
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Advertisement64 1952-02-21 4 TN£ BULLDOG ANT X^ [Suspended by its feet an Australian Bulldog Ant can hold in its jaws a glove more than a thousand times its own weight. Comparatively, for a human feat, trapeze artist would have to grip an SO ton steam£4 T4 toilo? with his t««ttt while 4^p§3HH^rc-m^ A64 words
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255 1952-02-21 5 Govt. may allow import of 'free' Siam rice THIS WIU NOT HELP, 1 SAYS TRADER Free Press Staff Reporter piCE dealers in Singapore and Federation may be allowed to resume the importation of free market Siamese rice next month, but this will not make any difference to the present control255 words
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Article172 1952-02-21 5 RIOT SQUAD WAITS FOR A 'YES' jree Press Staff Reporter rPHI selection and training a special Singapore I lee not squad of vo]unleeja will have to await the approval of a scheme of allowances which the police I .unties have suggested I the personnel of such a In addition to172 words
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Article53 1952-02-21 5 A meeting of all Division I officers hi the public service in Singapore will be held in the Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, on Saturday, March 8, at 3 p.m. The meeting will discuss, among others, the registration of the Singapore Senior Officers Association under53 words
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Article74 1952-02-21 5 News wasjreceived yesterday of the death in Sithankerny, Ceylon, of Mr. V. Agampajam who retired as Chief Clerk of the Public Works Department. Singapore, in 1928 The late Mr. Agamparam is the brother of Mr. V. Kandiah of the Singapore Customs Department He has two sons74 words
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Article81 1952-02-21 5 Free fress Staff Reporter •THE demand for coloured portraits of the Queen has been so great that the Public Relations Office in Singapore has cabled the Colonial Office in London for more copies. A total of 2,000 has already been distributed to schools, government offices,81 words
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Article, Illustration48 1952-02-21 5 She sings— and the workers listen MISS LOO MEI PING, a Singapore cabaret singer, who sang a Cantonese "blues" number at the recording by Radio Malaya of the first "Workers' Playtime" programme .held at the Dunlop rubber packing godown In the Harbour Board area yesterday.— Free Press picture.48 words
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Article48 1952-02-21 5 YWCA NEEDS $30,000 Lady Fogarty, wife of Air Marshal Sir Francis Fogarty, C-in-C, Far East Air Force, will broadcast an appeal for funds on behalf of the Singapore Y.W.C.A. on Monday. A sum of $30,000 is needed to enable the association to carry on its activities next year48 words
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Article129 1952-02-21 5 Free Press Staff Reporter AN 18-year-old boy in Sin- gapore has been living in an iron lung for the last two years. He is one of several polio victims who have received a respite in life through Singapore's 11 iron lungs. Now the city is129 words
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Article, Illustration25 1952-02-21 5 Ayonb, picture. GENERAL SIB GERALD TBMFLER leaving the council chamber after his installation as High Commissioner yesterda Behind him is Clerk of Council.— Free PressFree Press - 25 words
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Article203 1952-02-21 5 Free Press Staff Reporter T*HE Superintendent of the Singapore Mental Hos- pital, Dr. James Browne, yesterday asked relatives and friends of mentally unsound persons to take them to the hospital at the first sign of trouble. i There was a much better chance of an203 words
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Article98 1952-02-21 5 Free Press SUIT Reporter MR. R. Jumabhoy, Singapore ITA Legislative Councillor, said yesterday that Indian organisations in Malaya should follow the example set by Burma Indians and t*nr\i**ntrate nn social and Trade Promotion Conference in Rangoon, said he was impressed with the way Indians conducted98 words
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981 1952-02-21 5 Govt. unions will stay out Free Press Staff Reporter HpHE Singapore Trade Union Congress was Ct cribed by the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe, in the Legislative Council yesterday, as not a T.U.C. in the true sense of the word, but a981 words
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Article472 1952-02-21 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A MOVE by Mr. Lim Yew Hock (Lab.— Kcppel) to seek the support of the Singapore Legislative Council for the badminton hall project, including a loan from the Government for the hall, was defeated in Council yesterday. Councillors, by 18 votes472 words
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Article66 1952-02-21 5 THE Deputy Controller of Supplies (Price Control), Singapore, Mr. W. W. Jenkins, yesterday urged people to grow vegetables for their own consumption. Some varieties such as red chillies can be grown by flat dwellers who have no gardens. "This will help combat the cost of living," he66 words
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Article186 1952-02-21 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. *pHE Comptroller of the trade division of the Federation Treasury yesterday circulated notices asking all importers and chambers of commerce how much armour plate they needed this year. The notice said that the information was necessary "in order to assist in the186 words
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Article119 1952-02-21 5 They want to know about cartels rpHE existence of private cartels and other monopolistic practices in Singapore which restrict trade, are being investigated by the Trade Union Congress at the request of the ICFTU. Its report will be submitted to the ICFTU headquarters in Brussels for transmission to the ad119 words
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Advertisement116 1952-02-21 5 I Ml Bh 2B^H I ARGOTONE NASAL and EYE DROPSGrafton Laboratories Ltd (INCORPORATED IN SINCAMKf.* v W£ INVITE YOUR ENQUIRIES FOR FINE JEWELLERY REPAIRS AMD REMOUNTINGS, WHICH WILL RECEIVE OUR PROMPT ATTENTION •U. REPAIRS EXECUTED BY SKILLED CRAFTSMEN A trial will convince you that ice offer an unrivalled service. m116 words
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Advertisement75 1952-02-21 5 l Ml BLJ H_j BJ I .K Jj B I I the NEW Bicycle for DU X D and VjIiaJLO %^//]^^F^y t^^^^^^ IipJLJILw.UU Size 18 x 20 Constructed with ri/ni UAnr Frame of Weldless EACH MODEL Steel Tubes, Wheels with Dunlop Rims and gfm «m m P" dust-proof Hubs. I75 words
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Article, Illustration944 1952-02-21 6 Test men are not supermen Says COVER POINT KEITH Miller, Neil Harvey and Graeme Hole must be three of the most modest men in the ranks of international sport; when one considers the eulogies that have been larded over the pages of newspapers throughout the944 words
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Article, Illustration919 1952-02-21 6 How they ran at Ipoh yesterday From ALLAN LEWIS WHEN Red Wolf (Bagby) defeated Ocean Snare (Bagby Jr.) by a necK m the main race (Class 3, Div. 2 8 furs.) at Ipoh yesterday., Malayan racing history was made. It is certainly919 words
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Article230 1952-02-21 6 SINGAPORE Olympic and Sports Council's Board of Control yesterday told the swimming, weightlifting and athletic organisations to hold their Olympic trials at least one week before June 6. The Board made clear that sufficient time must be allowed for the S.O.S.C. secretary, Ted Strickland, to230 words
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419 1952-02-21 6 From ARCHIE QUICK rnHE curse of the cut eye is becoming more m •■■British boxing. Such an injury spoiled Turpin-Buxton fight at Harringay. th On the following evening a similar misadvem ruined the bout between Albert Finch oi CrrvH Ur the former419 words
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Article100 1952-02-21 6 MANASSA MAULER TALKS,.. lACK DEMPSEY snpat J before the Urion Club, had tfcfc -o lav 9 h gU good fighter, excep- h 7l" lightheavy, cot ep a e weight. One handicap getting old. Uei 29 Clarence Henr T J ]o ability and a c Du cher. If he improves inA.P. - 100 words
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Article103 1952-02-21 6 rE New York BUte Box::.? Board's medical commission is checking the records of all boxer> \v:. ha\> b*-r. discharged from the Army and it was revealed that tour famed boxers are am if those investigated No names rere (UKtaJ but it was learned tha: mU.P. - 103 words
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Article54 1952-02-21 6 WITH a ten -mar. sick. Raci3 Repair Section bea; E--gine Repair Section by two goals to nil in the replay of the semi-final oi the Royal Air Force Seletar inter-sec-tion hockey tourney at Seietar yesterday. Radio Repair Section had the two-goal winning margin before half-time through scores54 words
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Letter192 1952-02-21 6 gIR— If local table tennis piayers adopt the penholder grip then they may as well write themselves off as future world champions. The Japanese success in winning three world titles was nothing but a fluke due to unorthodox play which temporally (enough for them to 10.-e192 words
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Advertisement110 1952-02-21 6 CAPITOL TODAY 11-1.45-4-6.30-9.30 Warners' "PAINTING THE CLOUDS WITH SUNSHINE" TECHNICOLOR Plus! FULL PICTURES OF THE FUNERAL SAT. M NITE Columbia's THE MAGIC CARPET in SUPER cine COLOR HEX HOW SNOWING 11-1.45-4-6.30-9.30 Warners* COME FILL THE CUP James Cagney SAT. M NITE "APACHE DRUMS TECHNICOLOR PAVILION today 145-1-6.30-9.30 ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S "STAGE110 words
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Advertisement36 1952-02-21 6 AdT^ftlfTYX^' FROM TODAY M-G-M*s iMrißf Successor To Famed "Batilrcround starring: V^ VAN HEROES OF THF J4 3VH JOHNSON »»athe rbgIMENTAL COMBAT it FLOS! GuMlt British News Present* DOUBLE-LENGTH NEWSREEL I THE ROYAL FUNERALL OPENS TOP a*36 words
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Miscellaneous351 1952-02-21 6 MdnOrdkC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya F™**\ \"W^Jo^j\ IWE CAME FROM A OISTANT PLANET I |*f^ mw ABOUT I 7^l \*WeHEAOEO fCR EARTH 1 WE'O t- I—i2-—1 i2- y IN AHOTHER GALAXY- -OUR PLANET YOf/ZggK'^flUAtfr 1 TRAVELED IN SPACE BEFORE -BUT ■r^-J YOU SAY -YOUR TINY WAS351 words
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Article451 1952-02-21 7 A threat to Masterman •an Saturday s From ALLAN LEWIS pRINCELING (Harper) drew attention to his chances on Saturday, third day of the Perak Turf Club's February when he galloped brilliantly on the number two grass track, which was in good shape this morning. Princeling went from451 words
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Article, Illustration421 1952-02-21 7 By A Special Correspondent R.E.M.E Is 30 Bn 0. i\ g match in which spirit was more predominant than gooti hockey, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Workshops triumphed over 30 Battalion Roval Army Ordnance Corps by one goal to nil in the Singapore421 words
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Article842 1952-02-21 7 Free Press Golf Correspondent npHE long awaited visit by Dai Rees and Harry A Weetman to the Colony at last arrived and their first exhibition match they will play two here took place at the Island Club yesterday. The game was a straight match between842 words
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Article308 1952-02-21 7 5.8.8. championships Free Tress Correspondent rjUOD boxing was seen at the Singapore Base District individual boxing championship semifinals at Tanglin Gymnasium last night. eesi douis on tne programme of 16 fights, were the middleweight and bantamweight contests. Middleweights L/Cpl Porfar and L/Cpl Gill put308 words
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Article95 1952-02-21 7 HPAMIL Brotherhood Association will play if game of friendly soccer against the British Military Hospital this evening at 5.15 at Farrer Park. Clubs wishing friendly fixtures In soccer and table- tennis are requested to write to Mr. S.R.S. Naidu sports secretary. 4. Farrer Park. Individuals95 words
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Article26 1952-02-21 7 A FIJI Regt soccer XI beat a Merchant Navy scratch side by four goals to nil in a friendly encounter at Thomson Road vesterday26 words
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Article39 1952-02-21 7 UNAWARE, who was badly away in race one, and Seventy Seven, who was left at the post and took no part hi the last raee at Ipoh yesterday, have been suspended from racing for six months.39 words
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Article35 1952-02-21 7 r«ESAR Brion, young Argentine heavyweight hope, methodically pummelled Joe Kahut, of Oregon last night to win a unanimous ten -round deckv>n at Oregon Brio* 1 w ivhM) 1M nounds: Kahut 188% A.P.A.P. - 35 words
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Article368 1952-02-21 7 FIRST GOLD MEDAL FOR BRITAIN J^ISS Jeannett Altwegg, Ll-year-old British ice Queen, last night captured Britain's first gold medal in the Winter Olympic Games by winning the ladies figure skating title at Oslo. She won by a margin of over two points from 16--year-old American girl, Miss Tenley Albright, withA.P. - 368 words
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Article, Illustration15 1952-02-21 7 DAI REES in action at the Island Club golf course yesterday.—Free Press picture.15 words
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Article289 1952-02-21 7 (Coniiuuiti frum rage S* x iront and he was never in danger of defeat. Plylite who followed Binnton all the way was second with consistent Sporting Pink third. Delilah finished fourth. She had ever* chance. Civil Lord was fifth, with Prince Eugene who was tailed ofl289 words
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888 1952-02-21 7 FIJIANS ROMP INTO 'SEVENS SEMI-FINALS Free Press Rugby Reporter |> A.F. Tengah are the only outside challengers to lx the Fijians' stranglehold on the S.C.C. seven-a--side rugger competition after yesterday's quarter* final round. Although Tengah showed they were a useful combination they had to struggle to beat S.C.C. "A", who888 words
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Article83 1952-02-21 7 Districts bs'smen failed yesterday against the West Indies pace bowlers and lost seven wickets during the raincurtailed opening day of their two-day match in Palmerston. Ineffectual or rash strokes caused the dismissal of most and only I. Leggat, 21 not out at the close, looked confident.Reuter - 83 words
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Advertisement109 1952-02-21 7 HAPPY WORLD STADIUM s"urd»y, 23rd feb. .t 9 p.m SEE AND HEAR THE SINGING VILLAIN 1 SERENADE THEM, THEN MURgEirEMj' AL COSTELLO HflHI nM)IK as a Singer as well as a Wrestler. Has a Wm Nl( >n over CHIEF LITTLE WOLF. Hated ||j |1 where for his brutal tactics. Was109 words
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Advertisement9 1952-02-21 7 M#*l*YYm*lttw\urJiVkm ?eyon^^BMJ^Aa^^ Hi 111 Jj W" is ■HI OKA9 words
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Obituary115 1952-02-21 8 MR. R. LAIfXT passed away this morning at the General Hospital. The cortege will leave 311. Rangoon Road, at 4.30 p.m. and the burial win take place at 5.00 p.m. at Bidadari AtCUMMODiTION WANTED EUROPEAN couple two children urgently require furnished accommodation with or without board. Will anyone able115 words
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254 1952-02-21 8 DRINKING PARTY LED TO TIP-OFF ON SPY RING Editor held on espionage charge STOCKHOLM, Thursday. JOHN Enbom, an editor, was charged yesterday In the Stockholm Magistrate's Court with "gross espionage" for Soviet Russia. Swedish officials said that his arrest last w.eek smashed one of the most dangerous spy rings everA.P. - 254 words
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Article, Illustration45 1952-02-21 8 COCKTAILS IN THE BLUE ROOM A COCKTAIL party, with Mr. Wolfe Cohen, Foreign Manager, Warner Brothers, as guest of honour, was given at the Blue-Room last night. Picture sfeows L to R., Mr. Ron Run Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe Cohen and Mr. Jack Evans.45 words
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Article23 1952-02-21 8 Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt received an enthusiastic welcome from numerous women, student and youth organisations, as she arrived in Karachi yesterday.— A.F.P23 words
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Article24 1952-02-21 8 The Ceylon Government decided to release 500 convicts in an amnesty to mark the accession of Queen Elizabeth II ReuterReuter - 24 words
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275 1952-02-21 8 EUROPEANS who had the privilege of attending China Night at the Victoria Theatre, Singapore, last night were given an excellent opportunity of getting some little insight into the spirit and technique of traditional Chinese music, poetry, drama and physical education. The China Society, who275 words
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Article212 1952-02-21 8 NEW YORK, Thursday. rpHE mother of a Negro sailor who was shot to x death in the China Sea lias started a U*****,000 damage suit against the captain, the chief mate and the ship's owners, the Isbrandtsen Company. The skipper, Capt. Weaver was originally charged withA.P. - 212 words
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Article59 1952-02-21 8 Mr. Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New York, has attacked the demagoguery of people who kept saying the United States was "doing all the fighting in Korea". He reminded a meeting of ex-Servicemen that other western powers had forces in Korea, that the British were fightingReuter - 59 words
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Article38 1952-02-21 8 "?e West German Foreign Ministry's Eastern Department, will leave soon for Tokyo to head Germany's nrst post-war representation in Japan. The mission will aid in furthering German-Japanese trade and will have consular authority ReuterReuter - 38 words
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Article13 1952-02-21 8 British exports in January totalled £250,000.000 and her imports £357.100.000- ReuterReuter - 13 words
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Article27 1952-02-21 8 Mr. Robert Menzies' Liberal Government last night beat a censure motion on fj""v»ttl policy by the Labour opposition by 62 votes to 47 votes.— ReuterReuter - 27 words
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Article133 1952-02-21 8 PLANR HIT PYRAMID CLIMBER MEXICO, Thus. THE Summit of the centuri-es-old Pyramid of the Sun was stained with the blood of a woman, killed by a low-flying private plane which hit her a s she stood on top of the 216-foot monument 28 miles from here. Hie dead woman wasA.P. - 133 words
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Article91 1952-02-21 8 LONDON, Prt APART from weakness In coppers and diamonds, the market in commodity shares wa s steadier yesterday. Bear covering gave k firmer tone to tins and rubbers and was prompted in the latter by hopes of a decision to allow moderate increase in the consumptionReuter - 91 words
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Article136 1952-02-21 8 L^ TTW IX>NDON, Thursday. OVE may make a happy marriage, but it is the way the family purse is divided that keeps it so, the Married women's Association reported yesterday •The Association, formed In 1938 to "end the dictatorship by husbands," offered Its viewsA.P. - 136 words
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Advertisement398 1952-02-21 8 FOB SALE MENS Brown Birds-eye Salt. Brawn mixture salt Chest 38, Inside leg 33}, Pawn overcoat. All good moderate price. Hornby train new $20. Box S381. F.P. PREB demonstration, advice Poultry growth boosting latest method. Chemical canonisation. Artificial incubation, brooding. Ekcg production. Puree breeds. Oh Oim Koey, 3, Jalan Storey.398 words
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Advertisement214 1952-02-21 8 ELETTROCARBONIUiJ Societa per Azioni MitaT' Via Borghetto 5. We want a Sole Agent s©ru, e CARBON electrodes for electric ur n a t for aluminium production— carbon i ">„ fi «t"«i MMt tuiMces-ctoema carbons d '<* Sft tion-carbon for *y battettes-carbcn r^/.^w blowers— brushts for electric mot^r. fw ta£ •ntos^motors-carbons214 words
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