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Britain's highest court last week put an end to four years of legal wrangling, ruled that a man whose wife had a normal baby 360 days after he last saw her is entitled to a divorce on grounds of adultery. By a four-to-one majority the Law Lords of the House of Lords granted a decree to R.A.F. Veteran Charles Preston Jones. His wife gave birth on Aug. 13, 1946. Jones proved that he had not visited her since Aug. 18, 1945. Her claim that the baby was his was upheld by a lower court. The Lords...
...Highest paid: Britain's George VI, with $1,148,000. Denmark's Frederik IX gets $296,671; The Netherlands' Juliana, $263,158; Greece's Paul I, $230,000; Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, $146,000; Norway's Haakon...
...expected, the defendants declared they would take their case "if necessary to the highest court in the land." Meanwhile, Superintendent Jansen had been reinforced in his right to ask questions, and would continue to do so whenever he thought it necessary...
...passed the Defense Production Act, which provides for wage & price controls, the farm bloc built high food prices into the law by exempting farm products from price control until they sell at parity* or above. As additional protection, ceilings on farm products must be set at parity or the highest price in the month before the Korean invasion, whichever is higher...
...start of this week, the market moved up at even a faster clip. In the biggest day's trading (4,490,000 shares) since the outbreak of the Korean war, the rail averages hit 76.01, up 2.63 in two days, and their highest point in nearly 20 years. The Dow-Jones industrial averages hit 231.03, up 6.33 points in two days, thanks chiefly to the scramble to buy oils, metals and aircraft stocks. A spectacular performer: Grumman Aircraft. After a two-for-one split, it soared from 22⅝ to 28¾ in four days...