Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...R.A.F. also has other, older worries. Its large number of plane types has not been eased by a score of new U.S. types now swinging into action; this diversity caused many bottlenecks in spare parts. The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Canada, which so far has turned out 50,000 partly-trained pilots, was now up to original quotas, but those quotas had been outdated because of increased plane production. Besides, the R.A.F. was appallingly weak to start with: at the war's start it could muster only 124 first-line squadrons (about 1,500 planes...
...your brains knocked out, come on." Last week Cobb came. Golf Promoter Fred Corcoran had arranged two 18-hole matches (one in Boston, one in New York) for charity. To see the two southpaws with strange bats in their hands, 2,000 folks turned out at Boston's Commonwealth Country Club. They saw no heckling match: it was much too serious for that. The Babe, now 47 and 30 Ib. heavier than in his heyday, put his 230 Ib. behind each tee shot, outdrove Cobb on nearly every hole. Cobb, 54, played a characteristically crafty short game. His brilliant...
...eight-year fight between the New Deal and Commonwealth & Southern Corp ended last week. The $1,143,160,279 holding-company system threw in the towel, announced it would comply with SEC's interpretation of the "death sentence" by integrating its sprawling system. To those who wondered how big holding companies could unscramble without destroying stockholder equities, the C. & S. plan was soothingly simple: pay off the C. & S. preferred by giving it common stock in subsidiaries to be dropped...
...Britain the President's promise of aid was a hit in another sense, brought a great surge of relief throughout the British Commonwealth, plus a small eddy of wishes that he had gone even farther. By no accident two days later Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden came out with a statement of the British Government's war aims. A definition of the kind of peace Britain wants would be a primary condition of U.S. collaboration...
Presiding officer at the dinner, Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14 will speak to the Seniors as Governor of the Commonwealth and as president of the Alumni Association...