Word: brant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flying Officer Brant Howell of Manitoba turned his Sunderland from a probable "kill" to attack a surfaced sub with his guns. The sub's deck gun fired back, When the U-boat crash-dived, Howell saw the abandoned Nazi gun crew floundering in the sea. They soon had their submarine for company. Reported Howell: "Four depth charges exploded within a few feet of the stern and the last we saw of the U-boat was six feet of the afterpart sticking out almost vertically from the water...
...Irving Brant of the Chicago Sun asked a question that drilled to the nerve of the cavity-like omission in the President's statement: Have you any comment on the position of General de Gaulle? Mr. Roosevelt shook his head, negatively. In after thought he added: He wouldn't worry about it. It's all right. Then, in further afterthought three days later, he received mustached Andre Philip, Minister of Interior for the Fighting French...
...been doing year in & year out for the past 43 years: teaching U.S. artists how to draw the human figure. The oldster's name, as unfamiliar to the general public as it is familiar to practically every artist in the U.S., was George Brant Bridgman. Teacher Bridgman has good reason to take his teaching duties seriously. Some 70,000 artists (including Alexander Brook, John LaGatta, Eugene Speicher, McClelland Barclay, Norman Rockwell) learned their bones and muscles in his quiet, methodical classes...
...Carteret, N. J., members of C. I. O.'s United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union, joined by non-union employes, walked out of the Foster Wheeler Corp. plant. Reason: they had been refused a 10% pay rise. Neil Brant, union organizer, was arrested for defiling the U. S. flag. He had pounded on the flag when it was draped over the chairman's table at a strike meeting. ¶ In Chicago, a strike at the International Harvester Tractor Works threatened to spread to the huge McCormick Works next door. Struck were the Harvester Rock Falls...
...United Aircraft's Pratt & Whitney division. Last week both companies put out promising engine news. Curtiss-Wright's President Guy Warner Vaughan mounted a tractor-plow, broke ground for a huge new factory at Lockland (Hamilton County), Ohio. Pratt & Whitney's co-founder and chairman, Frederick Brant Rentschler, opened two additions to his factory at East Hartford, Conn., announced that still more space will be ready next spring...