Word: armoured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, on the prospect that Denmark's exit from the world butter, bacon and fat market might bring business to U. S. packers, such stocks as Armour and Wilson came to life. Commodity prices went into a mild boom. But investment was cautious: Britain, by tightening its breakfast belt, drawing more heavily on the farmers of the Empire, may still be able to stay out of the U. S. bacon-and-egg market, save her foreign exchange for military materials. Meanwhile, Scandinavian dollar bonds hit the skids, with declines up to almost 50%. Washington issued an order, generally...
...sailed last week to supervise the field work of her American Friends of France, Inc., a revival of her American Committee for Devastated France in and after World War I. On Miss Morgan's list of officers are such social lionesses as Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Ogden Armour of Chicago, Mrs. George A. Crocker, the Misses Elizabeth Perkins, Maude Wetmore and Daisy Fiske Rogers. They send blankets, clothes, ambulances, entirely for civilian relief. Le Paquet au Front-clothes, toilet articles, sweets, tobacco, games for French soldiers at the front-was organized by Mrs. Seton Porter (National Distillers). More...
...ARMS, No ARMOUR-Robert Henrlques-Farrar & Rineharf...
Thus Robert Henriques introduces the hero of No Arms, No Armour, which is the winner in the All-Nations Prize Novel Competition for 1939 (sponsored by Publishers Farrar & Rinehart, various foreign publishers and the Literary Guild). As an officer and a gentleman, Windrush represents a tradition which causes the English distinct pride and a certain worry. Author Henriques worries over him like a maiden aunt. What is somewhat less credible, he makes him a subject of tender concern to his major ("Sammy") and to "Daddy" Watson, the hardbitten subaltern of the introductory scene...
...Arms, No Armour has, for all that, the limited distinction of being the best novel about the British Army during the late peace (1928-30, precisely) that has yet appeared. Author Henriques, 34, is a major in the regular army. He writes with authority and irony of the military mind ("[the general] looked on the war as a pitiful era of confusion for the army, a lapse that must never recur . . ."), with intimate affection of the quieter moments of routine ("Like the Lord's Prayer, you had it all by heart . . . feet, head, belly, legs; nearside, offside, eyes, nose...