Word: crosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Social Welfare: Ronald Cross...
...research institute, $100,000 for antiaircraft batteries to defend Stockholm. The Bofors Co., which makes antiaircraft guns, is largely his. So is most of worldwide Electrolux Co. (refrigerators, vacuum cleaners). His lady is from Kansas City, Marguerite Liggett, who studied opera singing in Berlin. His yacht, the Southern Cross, is one of the world's largest, was once owned by Flier Howard Hughes...
Furious at Wenner-Gren last week were masses of his countrymen. Swedish newspapers flayed him for buying 50 tons of petrol, of which Sweden suffered a War shortage, and setting out on the Southern Cross for a pleasure cruise in the Atlantic...
...Sunday, about 200 mi. west of the Hebrides, a mortal explosion suddenly rocked and ripped the Athenia's, hull, killed perhaps 100 passengers & crew, started her sinking fast. All hands got safely into lifeboats. One of the first ships to reach the rescue scene was the Southern Cross. Bitterly criticized Tycoon Wenner-Gren became an international hero as he picked up 200 survivors, started back with them toward Ireland. The Norwegian freighter Knute Nelson picked up 800 more. British warboats raced toward the spot where the Athenia was left to sink. World headlines screamed, GERMANS TORPEDO BRITISH LINER...
...grandiose imaginative surprises aimed at unnerving their potential enemy. Stories were of a first deep shock, a quick recovery, then of wheels turning, of preparations, meetings, mobilizations. Unlike the period before Munich, when the fleet was mobilized before the Army, when British and French diplomats seemed to work at cross purposes, no hitches or jerks showed in British-French preparations. Parliament assembled smoothly and gravely. War powers went to the Government without recrimination, without distrust. Whatever arguments developed behind the scenes over policy and timing, flawless diplomatic coordination between France and Great Britain stood out in sharp contrast...