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MPX5078428: Farmers are 6 weeks behind time. Every hour counts, but the ground is not yet quite fit, for highly mechanised work, It is still heavy in parts. On Sir Peter Greenwell's estate at Caterham they are falling back to old time sowing by broadcasting. Bill Cowie, farm manager has got his men broadcasting spring wheat by hand as he learned it himself years ago. In two or three days time if this weather holds the machines will come into their own again, but there isn't an hour to lose. Bill says as long as he can get the corn in the ground he will gamble on a late summer to reap it. It's no use bemoaning the weather and if you don't put the corn in it won't grow and so he has 3 of his old hands sowing from early morning till late at night. Each man can sow 8 acres a day, and he says, who knows it may be wet in two or three days. April 1947 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078443: The Institute of Directors annual conference at the Albert Hall, more improperly known as 'The Picnic' from the practice of serving lunch in picnic boxes to the 3,000 odd, directors who attend, was addressed today by such diverse speakers as Barbara Castle, Ronald Reagan, Gov of California, Ian McLeod and John Betjeman. Gov. Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy after his speech to the Institute of directors. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078470: The Institute of Directors annual conference at the Albert Hall, more improperly known as 'The Picnic' from the practice of serving lunch in picnic boxes to the 3,000 odd, directors who attend, was addressed today by such diverse speakers as Barbara Castle, Ronald Reagan, Governor of California, Ian McLeod and John Betjeman. Barbara Castle speaking at the conference, and behind her a giant screen projects a more than life size picture of her in action. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078505: Lovely Karin Dor, the young German born actress is in London for the opening of her latest film "Topaz" in which she plays a sensuous counterspy in the sophisticated, but equally treacherous world of espionage. Karin who flew who flew in today from Munich was chosen by Alfred Hitchcock for the role of Juanita a Cuban agent after seeing her in the James Bond picture "You Only Live Twice". November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078507: Lovely Karin Dor, the young German born actress is in London for the opening of her latest film "Topaz" in which she plays a sensuous counterspy in the sophisticated, but equally treacherous world of espionage. Karin who flew who flew in today from Munich was chosen by Alfred Hitchcock for the role of Juanita a Cuban agent after seeing her in the James Bond picture "You Only Live Twice". November 1969 / Bridgeman Images