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Brewer's Horses. For his services, Mr. Speaker Morrison will get a salary of ?5,000 ($14,000) a year and, on retirement, a peerage. A keen fiddler and a braw man with the pipes, Shakes will have ample room to practice in the oak-paneled rooms of the Speaker's House in the Palace of Westminster, overlooking the Thames. Alone among British subjects, the Speaker holds levees at which court dress (breeches and orders for men, formal gowns for women) is worn. M.P.s must bow to him when entering and leaving the House. It is only when...
...Hiram Cole Houghton of Red Oak, Iowa, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, stepped up last week to say something about the girls. She told a meeting in Philadelphia: "We bear a greater responsibility than ever before for the preservation of our American way of life, because, first, there are so many of us; second, we live longer than men; third, we have 92 labor-saving devices to give us more leisure time to think about the affairs, events and problems of our times. We spend about 85? out of every dollar going for consumer goods...
Water Mine. A few years ago, when gold shares were falling and uranium was coming into the limelight, one mine changed its name from Samar Yellowknife Gold Mines Ltd. to Oak Ridge Uranium Mines Ltd. Neither gold nor uranium has yet been mined by this company; its main shaft is full of water...
...Base, with a squadron of jets rumbling in salute overhead, General George C. Kenney, 62, commander of MacArthur's air forces in World War II, took his last review, got some final honors for 34 years of service. Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg pinned a second Oak Leaf Cluster to Kenney's Distinguished Service Medal for the past three years as head of the Air University, then added another medal, the Legion of Merit, for his service (1946) as senior U.S. member on the United Nations Military Staff Committee. From Secretary of Defense General George...
...University of Tennessee's Oak Ridge experiment station, hens fed with mildly radioactive mash are laying radioactive eggs. This tracer technique, the university said last week, has helped its poultry scientists to follow the intimate workings of the hen's egg-making machinery. By skilled use of Geiger counters, they can follow the "hot" feed as it circulates inside the hen. They can measure it accurately as it forms into...