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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...destroyer Kelly-that Britain's former darling, the wearer of fancy collars and a lifted eyebrow, onetime King, hero of thwarted lovers, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, went home, taking with him his still unroyal, still beloved Duchess. Once the news would have been the biggest in all Britain; last week it was just another parenthesis in the sad story of war. The Kelly was scheduled to dock at Portsmouth at 6:30 one evening. At 6:45 the blundering Ministry of Information announced that the Duke had landed. But not until 9, more than two hours after...
...Biggest disappointments to Crimson-Blue followers were Jim Lightbody, who had to be satisfied with a third in the 440, and sprinter Charley Smith. Smith pulled a muscle in his right leg while he was leading the pack in the 100 and dropped all the way to fourth at the finish...
...Times one day last week a little bearded man stood glaring at a cablegram. Twenty hours earlier the British liner Athenia, with 300-odd American war refugees aboard, had been torpedoed off the coast of Scotland. In the dead of night, as the news reached London, correspondents, scenting the biggest German "atrocity" story since the sinking of the Lusitania, had descended on cable companies, roused up nodding operators to file their dispatches. It was now late afternoon, and the message in Times Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall's hand (from his home office) read...
...export of several other necessities of war-necessities that are life savers instead of life takers. Among them are: Pharmaceuticals (big makers: Parke, Davis & Co., Abbott Laboratories), surgical dressings (big makers: Johnson & Johnson, the Kendall Co.), gas masks (big maker: Mine Safety Appliances Co.),parachutes (world's biggest maker: Irving Air Chute...
Heavy Industries carried the biggest label: "War Babies." Bethlehem Steel, prize baby of World War II, was up 30%, Big Steel up 31%. The 8-11% rise of Westinghouse and General Electric was credited to their varied electrical wares-from light bulbs to battleship machinery...