Word: bolton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from pubs, from dance halls. Minesweepers, destroyers, every available ship put out into Dead Man's Bay. Searchlights dug into the fog, were reflected back in a sickly glare. Soon after midnight trawls struck an obstruction. News was flashed to every city in Britain; everyone breathed easier. Sir Bolton Meredith Eyres Monsell. First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered divers down at daybreak...
...again they had signalled failure. Planes went aloft, could see nothing. The sea grew rougher. Minesweepers moved back and forth, touched something, found it was a wreck. All that day and night the search went on. All day, all night, news was flashed to the cities of Britain. Sir Bolton sent a telegram to wives of married members of the crew: "We regret to inform you that your husband is missing and is feared drowned. . . ." Thomas Morris' wife read her telegram, waited at the post office for another...
...flags that had belonged to the M-2 were brought up before the lines parted. The seas grew heavier, slapped against the sides of the searching ships, but below the surface there was no sound. The 48 hours of air and life in the M-2 were up. Sir Bolton bowed his head and signed a telegram. "There is no hope now of saving life." Mrs. Morris received her telegram. It was condolences from her King & Queen...
...with Phillips Jones Co. which has sole manufacturing rights. In 1922 Inventor Van Heusen and Phillips Jones Co. successfully sued the bulk of the U. S. collar industry for infringement of patents. In the following year, however, Inventor Van Heusen was sued for $6,000,000 by John B. Bolton. For patents he had assigned to Van Heusen, Inventor Bolton later received $1,000,000. Other Van Heusen inventions: nonslip garters, nonslip lingerie shoulder straps, a hospital sterilizer, improvements for shoemaking machines...
...Deplored a too candid allusion by First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monsell, to the naval mutiny last fall (TIME, Sept. 28). "I know what a shock this incident was to the whole country," burbled Sir Bolton, "but I beg the House of Commons and the country to understand it was a most profound shock to the Royal Navy. The Navy realizes today that we no longer occupy the very high position in the hearts of our British public that for past centuries...