Word: brunswickers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hurricane Time Prim & proper Fredericton never fails to loosen its stays a bit for a gay old time during the annual visit of New Brunswick's most illustrious native son, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook, 72 this week. The Beaver, Britain's No. 1 newspaper lord, likes it that way. He seldom comes home, moreover, without bearing gifts for his pet philanthropy, the University of New Brunswick (total so far: $1,500,000), where he himself was once a brilliant, tippling, debt-ridden, poker-playing law student...
...turn out a few of his four-and six-cylinder Republics before they gave it up. But it taught Fred about engines, and when, at 30, he was commissioned a ist lieutenant in World War I, the Army made him an aircraft-engine inspector. He was sent to New Brunswick, N.J., where Wright-Martin was making the famed Hispano-Suiza engine under French license. There Rentschler was converted to aviation. At war's end, he told brother George: "Come hell or high water, I'm going to stay...
...Stewart, formerly purchaser for the Air Reduction Co., Inc., as purchasing head; and A. R. Kelso, president of Farmingdale Corp. (airplane parts), as production chief. To cut production costs, Bransome enlarged Mack's engine plant at Plainfield, N.J., moved its transmission and gear production there from nearby New Brunswick...
...Brunswick, N.J. last week, Post 133 of the Jewish War Veterans volunteered to supply substitutes for Christians who would otherwise have to work on Christmas Day. First requests to come in were for twelve movie-theater ushers and three restaurant waitresses. "There are no conditions attached to the offer and we shall accept no compensation," explained the post's spokesman, Harold Berman. "Our sole reward will be the knowledge that we have been able, in a small way, to express our gratitude for the splendid relationship that exists between the Jewish members of our community and our Christian neighbors...
...five children, he was, his mother remembers, "a completely average boy" until his last year in high school, when he got steamed up over the idea of going to West Point. He took the competitive exams for the Academy twice, once in Elizabeth and once in New Brunswick, N.J. In Elizabeth he stood first among the applicants, in New Brunswick second...