Word: crow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mainly responsible for development of the "U.P." (unrotative projectile) was Dr. Alwyn Douglas Crow, scientist in the Ministry of Supply. Dr. Crow, an infantryman in World War I, has been conducting rocket experiments since 1936; early work was carried out in a secret laboratory deep in the English countryside, firing trials in Jamaica, B.W.I...
...Crow's loud and lethal gadgets went into action again last week when some 100 German planes whisked over London sowing incendiary bombs, the worst of which landed in fashionable residential districts. Two famous squares were well scorched, an embassy and a legation partly burned out. London's defenders shot down 13 of the attackers, speedily put the fires...
...profits of 206 representative companies, found they had edged up not quite 5%. The New York Sun rang up the net incomes of 215 companies, found they were up a bare 2%. With U.S. production up a solid 17% during the year, this was little enough to crow about - with renegotiation still to come. But renegotiation, trimming off the lard, may not be such a hazard now: during the year, many a corporation sensibly slashed its prices to Uncle Sam. And as an additional bulwark, many companies built up special renegotiation reserves to take care of refunds...
...Texas . . , Mexicans do not ride in the so-called Jim Crow cars [TIME, Feb. 7]; they do not use the so-called Jim Crow toilets; they go to the same schools as all other Texans except Negroes . . . and Mexicans eat wherever they wish. True, one restaurant in one town did at one time put up a sign stating that Mexicans would not be served. Can you, or anyone else, hold that one is the total number of restaurants in the State of Texas...
Texas very definitely does not have "Jim Crow" law as applicable to Mexicans, and what segregation there is in the schools is for the reason of difference of language rather than for any feeling of superiority. There are different social strata among the Mexicans even as among the Texans, which the Texans, with all their recognition of the economic necessity of the various strata, recognize. But as to their lumping all Mexicans together in "extreme intolerable racial discrimination," that is a pure figment of imagination...