Word: dee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Steiner slips back into Austria: he is hoping for some word from his wife (Frances Dee) who is still in Germany. Kern hopes to find his refugee father in Prague, finds him dead. But in Prague, at a boarding house for refugees, Ludwig meets Ruth Holland (Margaret Sullavan), a medical student until she fled from Berlin when her lover denounced her publicly as a Jewess...
Wilfred Grenfell spent his boyhood on the Sands of Dee near Cheshire, England. He used to filch biscuits and wine from his school larder to give to fishermen as they left at dawn to catch the early tide. One day the family doctor showed him a pickled brain, and young Wilfred, "thrilled," decided to become a physician. After he graduated from the University of London, he set up an office in fashionable Mayfair, but he longed for the sea. So in June 1892 he set sail with a British hospital ship to spend a summer treating the natives of Labrador...
Antiseptic Paint. After thousands of experiments, Dr. Foster Dee Snell, prolific Brooklyn industrial chemist, and Co-Worker Dr. Samuel Sidney Epstein announced production of a successful antiseptic paint-for children's rooms, breweries and bakeries, hospitals, food factories. They mix their paint with chlorine and iodine. After nine weeks on the wall it still kills typhoid and some other germs in the air, retains some antiseptic strength for six years. It is not so effective as sterilizing indoor air by ultraviolet radiation, but it is cheaper...
...Blackburn Skua (naval dive bomber) and Roc (fighter). From near Birmingham come Fairey Battles (medium bombers). A plant of Fairey Aviation Co. is at Stockport in Lancashire, turns out the torpedo-launch ing Swordfish. The big Vickers long-range bombers, Wellesley and Wellington, are built at Chester on the Dee; the Avro Anson (coastal reconnaissance) at Manchester and Failsworth; Rolls-Royce engines at Derby...
...Tweedle-dee-dum, tweedle-dee-dye," chorused the independent sports experts, "Three o'clock Thursday...