Word: afters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kurth's fondest dream was to convert Southern yellow pine, not good for finished building purposes, into newsprint. Not until the mid-'30s when a method of controlling the pitch content in pine pulp was discovered, was he convinced that it could be done. Then he had to...
Pressed into troopship service in World War I, she used her speed (23 knots) to zigzag alone through submarine-infested waters. She also performed yeoman service in World War II, carrying 384,586 servicemen to & from battle. Never once was the Aquitania, known as "Grannie," fired on. Between wars she...
Pocahontas is going into a competing business, said Alexander, because "our customers are thoroughly disgusted with interruptions year after year because of [John L.] Lewis' attitude. We are going into oil where oil is available in order to hold on to our business."
Divorced. By Boyce ("Peggy") Schulze Hohenlohe, 28, daughter of Heiress (copper) Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle, stepdaughter of Diplomat Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr.: Alexander Hohenlohe, 31, prince and war refugee, who fled Poland with the Biddles in 1939, attempted suicide last September after his separation from Peggy; after ten years...
Divorced. Arnold Nelson Welles, 31, socialite son of Author-Diplomat Sumner Welles; by Adele Harman Welles, 30; after seven years of marriage, two sons; in Reno.