Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, with Norman Brookes (now Sir Norman because of "distinguished service to the Empire") looking on,* a new generation of Davis Cuppers from Down Under challenged a new generation of U. S. Davis Cuppers in a war-clouded spectacle that promised to be as dramatic as the one 25...
Until the Munich pact last fall, British doctors, like the Poles, gave little thought to the prospect of war. But immediately after Munich, Dr. John Henry Hebb of the Ministry of Health and President Colin D. Lindsay of the British Medical Association began working feverishly on medical A. R. P...
Patients wounded near the Thames will be carried down the river on converted pleasure steamers to central zone hospitals. At zone hospitals desperate cases will receive immediate attention, but all those who can survive will be immediately examined and shipped for surgical treatment to base hospitals in safe districts some...
Coordinator of NBC's system of full-time big-shot press correspondents in key capitals and comment from guest correspondents and political bigwigs is capable ex-Worldman Abe Schechter. Correspondent Max Jordan, who scored a notable beat for radio last September on the Munich pact, this time got NBC...
In military metallurgy, beryllium is rated a new wonder metal. The element beryllium was discovered by a Frenchman in 1797, but during World War I and for years afterward there was no known use for it; in 1923 its price was $5,000 per pound. But beryllium ores are scattered...