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...many junior air commanders in Australia have been replaced so that their age level has fallen rapidly. General Brett and his three senior officers, all replaced, are aged 56, 52, 53, 58. General Kenney is 53 and his three new senior officers, Brigadier Generals Ennis Whitehead, Kenneth Walker and Emmett O'Donnell, are aged...
Fortnight ago the District Democratic committee decided that enough poll-tax payers (250 required) had signed a petition for the Aug. 4 primary to permit the candidacy of grey-haired, bespectacled Emmett C. Davison, 64, secretary-treasurer of A.F. of L.'s International Association of Machinists, onetime mayor of Alexandria, member of the northern Virginia draft-appeals board. In 1936 Davison was tried, acquitted on a charge of concealing assets in personal bankruptcy proceedings. He ran again for mayor of Alexandria, to vindicate himself, was badly beaten...
...terrible danger. From the hospital at Coco Solo Naval Base in the Canal Zone last week came one of the grisliest tales of the war. It was told by a haggard, wan-eyed, bearded sailor, who looked like a man of 50. He was a mess boy named Robert Emmett Kelly, aged 17, sole survivor of a middle-sized tanker that a pig boat potted somewhere in the Caribbean...
...mercury turbine was first conceived about 1912 by the late William LeRoy Emmett. He tinkered with small-scale machines in G.E. laboratories until 1922, when the progressive Hartford (Conn.) Electric Light Co. volunteered to install a 1,800-kilowatt mercury plant for commercial power production. It was not a thumping success, nor were two 20,000-kw. plants built for the New Jersey's Public Service Electric & Gas Co. at Kearny and for G.E. at Schenectady...
...three students, Gardiner was most seriously hurt, receiving a bad concussion. McVeigh suffered knee injuries and facial lacerations while Emmett received severe cuts about the head...