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Editorial – America’s Choice
South Yorkshire Times, November 11th 1944
America’s Choice
President Roosevelt’s re-election for a fourth term as President of the United States is not surprising, but in...
Editorial – Election in the Air
South Yorkshire Times, November 4th 1944
Election in the Air
Since it seems that sooner or later we must resign ourselves to a resumption of the...
Editorial – Twice Taught Lesson
South Yorkshire Times 18 November 1944
Twice Taught Lesson
Royal Air Force Lancasters intervened dramatically in the inconclusive Battleships versus Bombs debate this week. The sinking...
Editorial – Hard Pounding
South Yorkshire Times, November 25th 1944
Hard Pounding
General Eisenhower, like Wellington at Waterloo, is seeing who can pound longer. It is a test of many...
Marconigrams – December 02nd 1944
South Yorkshire Times, December 2nd 1944
Marconigrams
The Mining Association of Great Britain is to appoint a Director of Recruitment, Training and Education, at a salary...
Editorial – A Well-Kept Watch
South Yorkshire Times, 2 December 1944
A Well-Kept Watch
On Sunday the Home Guard formally “stands down.” In the critical days which followed the Dunkirk evacuation,...
Editorial – Greece in Travail
South Yorkshire Times, 16 December 1944
Greece in Travail
There is a significant obduracy about ‘the manner in which the Greek ‘“rebels” (as General Scobie's...
Scrapbook of 1946 Flicking Back Pages of Last Year’s Diary
South Yorkshire Times January 4, 1947
Scrapbook of 1946 Flicking Back Pages of Last Year’s Diary
1946 was the first full reconstruction year of peace and...
NCB flag goes up at the Pits – Vesting Ceremonies in the Districts
South Yorkshire Times January 11, 1947
NCB flag goes up at the Pits
Vesting Ceremonies in the Districts
Seal of state ownership
Veterans and Boys...
The Birth of a Coalfield – Looking Back 150 years
South Yorkshire Times January 4, 1947
Looking Back 150 years
South Yorkshire Pioneer's Legacy
In South Yorkshire a chapter of its industrial history 150 years long came...