A week in the news 1952.Byline: John Avison , The North Eastern Gas Board, this area's supplier, announced a loss of pounds 31,311 on the year, which it put down to the increased cost of coal, transport and wages. But all was not lost: the company had run up a pounds 45,000 profit the year before, which, when the books were balanced, left them about pounds 14,000 in pocket. Manchester City justices passed a resolution urging that " owing to the large number of acts of violence against old people, women and children in particular in their own homes, we are of the opinion that .... the power of the court to pass a sentence of whipping should be restored." Whipping ceased to be a legal punishment when the Criminal Justice Act of 1948 was passed. It remains illegal. The robe to be worn by the Queen at her coronation was to be a close copy of that worn by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother at her wedding to George VI in 1937. "It will be made of pure silk, hand-made, purple velvet, furred with miniver min·i·ver n. A white or light gray fur used as a trim on medieval robes and on ceremonial robes of state. [Middle English meniver, from Old French menu vair, small vair : pure, powdered with ermine ermine, name for a number of northern species of weasel having white coats in winter, and highly prized for their white fur. It most commonly refers to the white phase of Mustela erminea, called short-tailed weasel in North America and stoat in the Old World. tails and embroidered in gold," said a representative of Ede and Ravenscroft Ede and Ravenscroft are the oldest tailors in London, established in 1689. They have three London premises, on Gracechurch Street, Chancery Lane and Burlington Gardens, very close to the famous Savile Row. , the Chancery Lane, London, firm entrusted with making it. UN forces were under attack in eastern Korea as insurgents from Communist China piled into the country. Meanwhile, in Kenya, white settlers and hunters were chasing members of the notorious Mau Mau into the jungle near Nairobi. Herbert Morrison became deputy leader of the opposition Labour Party, beating Aneurin Bevan by 194 votes to 82. Retailers were being told to withdraw a whole range of items such as coshes and knuckle-dusters, which were seen as encouraging violence among children. A prominent US chemist, Dr Harold Urey, read between the lines Between the lines can refer to:
Mr James Hanson, son of Mr and Mrs Robert Hanson of Edgerton, announced that he was not now going to marry up-and-coming young actress Audrey Hepburn. This was a hard personal decision but our work was keeping us apart more and more, the entrepreneur said. |
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