Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine autumn day in 1940, a. British engineer, carrying a small black bag, debarked from a ship in Manhattan. He was met by a Bell Telephone engineer. They meandered into a movie before driving out to the Bell man's suburban house. Next day, satisfied that they had shaken off any possible spies, they turned up at the Bell Laboratories with the supersecret device that broke the radar bottleneck. The Briton, a member of a radar mission to the U.S., brought designs anda model of an electronic tube called the "magnetron...
...wheat crop is expected to be the largest ever. The wet, cold weather that delayed corn planting failed to harm the winter wheat which was planted last autumn. But despite a record crop (1.1billion bushels), for every bushel of wheat used to feed cattle at home there will be one less bushel available next winter to ship to hungry mouths in Europe...
...autumn of 1886 an excited, nervous boy of 13 (who had every inten tion of becoming a first mate and no thought whatever of becoming a poet laureate) stepped into a cutter at the Liverpool docks and was rowed to H.M.S...
...pleasure in announcing the election of James G. Trager, Jr.'46, of Lowell House and Scarsdale, New York, as Editor. Trager, who previously served as Managing Editor, replaces Russell K. Headley '46, of the V-12 Unit and St. Paul, Minnesota. Other executive appointments will be made in the autumn...
...Prince Louis Ferdinand Hohenzollern, grand son of the Kaiser and former Ford Motor Co. employe, last week told A. P. Correspondent Louis Lochner that he had approached Ribbentrop in the autumn of 1938 as a secret and unofficial emissary of President Roosevelt. Roosevelt, said the prince, wanted to arrange a meeting with Hitler, Mussolini and Neville Chamberlain to avert the approaching war. Ribbentrop's only an swer to the prince's suggestion was a threat to have him thrown out of the Luftwaffe...