Word: ajax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...medical consultant to both the Army and Navy during the war). He has big plans for national cancer research, has pestered capital politicos for a good many months to put up the money. With his great & good friend, the University of Chicago's world-famed physiologist Anton J. ("Ajax") Carlson, he has for years fought a determined battle against anti-vivisectionists...
...British cruiser Ajax dropped anchor last week at Haifa. In the first winter of the war against Hitler, the Ajax had been a symbol of hope and freedom when she and two other light British warcraft harried the German pocket battleship Graf Spee to self-destruction off Montevideo. She was not that sort of symbol last week to hundreds of desperate Jews who stared at her from impounded refugee ships in Haifa harbor...
...Toronto University, 60 students staged a sophomorish sitdown in protest against having to travel 50 miles a day to & from applied-science classes at Ajax, Ontario. The strike lasted one hour. In Winnipeg, 124 Tribune and Free Press printers who had struck last November (TIME, Dec. 3) and had subsequently been fired for "absence from work," claimed they were still on strike. But the two papers had long since trained new printers and were publishing regularly...
...natives in the slumlands of Spanish Town and Old Harbor increasingly restless. On the fringes of Kingston there are 9,000 now unemployed inland and mountain laborers, who refuse to go home after a taste of higher wages on Jamaica's new U.S. naval base. The cruiser Ajax and troops from Bermuda quelled Kingston's strike riots in 1938. Now 1,300 white vigilantes patrol the streets at night with clubs and revolvers. Last week Canadian and U.S. troops were ordered out on parade one day before the annual celebration of Emancipation Day, commemorating the freeing of Jamaican...
...hospitable as the ancient Scots and Britons they spring from, most Haligonians are proud of their Ajax Club. In 14 months 250,000 ratings, in from the North Atlantic, have found warmth, comradeship, books to read, cheap beer. Mrs. C. Stuart McEuen, club president, and other lady volunteer workers have proudly exhibited plaques presented by ships of the British and Canadian Navies in appreciation of her snug harbor. But across the street is the Fort Massey United Church, and last week the church made trouble. The Ajax Club found that it could not renew its license to sell beer...