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ZUM4922216: Tue. 18, 1954 - Powder box lightened by electric light.. had been shown at the Vienna spring exhibition in form of a model in demonstrative big extent. It consists out of leather and is in the inner fitted out with” Polestryn”. A little battery serves as energetic source / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4922525: Tue. 23, 1954 - To get traffic sinners just by the very action, German Police has been delivered with special machines. These motor cycles are equipped with camera and flashlight. Now, every sinner can be noticed by the camera, if he's surpassing carelessly or doesn't watch the traffic signs / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4929635: May 05, 1954 - Advises West's Civil Defense: Sir John Hodsoll, Britain's leading civil defense expert, has been made Chief Technical Adviser to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Civil Defense Committee. In 1935 Sir John, now 60, was put in charge of Britain's first air raid alert system, and three years later was made Inspector-General of Britain's Civil Defense organization. His last (started in 1948) job was as Director-General of Civil Defense training at the British home Office, in which connection he has visited Canada four times to promote civil defense cooperation among the United States, Canada and Britain / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4929928: May 05, 1954 - In Stockhelm, Sweden, May 27th, wedding between Marion B. Folson Jr. BA, Rochester NY, and Christine M. Groth, daughter to mr and mrs Olof W.Groth, Stockholm. Best men was the bridegroom's father mr Marion B.Folson, undersecretary of the US's treasury. Bridemaids were Miss Eve-Britt Groth, Miss Frances Folson, Miss Gunilla Silas-Lindquist and Miss Ulla Sjoestroem. Ushers were Mr Goeran Holm and Mr Gilbart T. Hoard. The bridegroom's sister, Miss Frances Folsom, dancing with Mr Thord Thordson after the dinner / Bridgeman Images
UTD4930132: Federal Republic of Germany , Hamburg , food ration card for adults over 16 years , valid in November 1949 , most of the stubes are cutted out. Keywords : FRG , Germany , postwar era , the Second World War , WW II , rationing , providing , poverty , plight , misery , economy , history , at the end of the forties of the twentieth century / Bridgeman Images