Patrick Ryan (author and journalist) then transferred to The Fourth Regiment of the Reconnaissance Corps of the Royal Armoured Corps. He served in North Africa, Italy, and Greece. He moved to Leeds in the 1950s as Assistant Head Postmaster, and his "apprenticeship" in adapting to Yorkshire life is related in his humorous memoir "How I Became A Yorkshireman", published in the late 1960s. He later became Head Postmaster at Harrogate and was a regular contributor for "Punch" and The New Scientist in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as writing several television plays and some episodes of "The Army Game" and "Bootsie and Snudge" both
Economic spin-off Economic spin-off The term economic spin-off is widely used in popular media to describe the potential secondary economic effects of project or development. This may reflect a real phenomenon, especially when used looking back into the past, where the results are measurable, though still subject to rival interpretations. More often, however, it is use by proponents of a particular project to speculate or promote their favoured project. An example of the former (measuring past results) would include a report in the activities surrounding the 400th Anniversary of Quebec City, which claimed that the festivities created 8,742 person-years of employment (jobs)