Anthony E. Pratt manufacture it. It was Waddingtons who renamed the game Cluedo (a combination of "Clue" and ""Ludo"", a Latin word meaning "I play"). But material shortages in post-war Britain meant the game did not go into production until 1949. Pratt was granted patent GB586817 'Improvements in Board Games' on 1 April 1947. After the end of the Second World War Pratt entered the British Civil Service working for the Ministry of Labour helping demobbed servicemen and women to return to peacetime work. In 1953, four years after Cluedo first went on sale, Waddingtons told Pratt that the game was not selling
The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1950 praising "the literary taste and broad knowledge of the field shown by its editors." The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1950 The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1950 is a 1950 anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty. An abridged edition was published in the UK by Grayson in 1951 under the title "The Best Science Fiction Stories". The stories had originally appeared in 1949 in the magazines "Astounding", "The Saturday Evening Post", "Fantasy and Science Fiction", "Fantastic Adventures", "Maclean’s", "Thrilling Wonder Stories", "Blue Book" and "Startling Stories". The anthology was later combined with