Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naval stores originally got their name because as long as ships were wooden, pine tar and pitch were chiefly used in calking hulls and in tarring rope. The first Englishmen who went to North Carolina in the 16th Century saw in the Southern pine forests supplies of pitch and lumber which would make English shipbuilders independent of Scandinavia for these necessities. The same timberlands 300 years later were yielding two-thirds of the world's turpentine and rosin, the simplest derivatives of pitch. By 1900 there were 1,500 distilling centres in the South with an annual production...
...object of British Lieut. General Napier was to punish a bad Emperor for having tortured some Englishmen. Benito Mussolini began his road-building and colonizing invasion of Ethiopia last October. Three days later Aduwa fell, followed by the fall of the Holy City of Aksum a week later. The emotional advance was stupendous. The territorial advance was 75 miles. Nothing much except road-building happened for a month. Then the Italians pushed their advance 65 miles by taking Makale (TIME, Nov. 18). Nothing of a victorious nature continued to happen for three months. Then under newly appointed Marshal Pietro Badoglio...
...sort of little story Russians are always telling about Stalin, Germans about Hitler and Turks about Kamal Ataturk-a story which might be true and strikes the tellers as supremely characteristic-was being murmured over London teacups last week about God-fearing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Englishmen make a great thing of initials in their speech and the "P. M." (Prime Minister) was said to have been going over with the Cabinet the speech he subsequently made in the House of Commons upon the accession of King Edward VIII. Afterward Mr. Baldwin's secretary gathered up the manuscript...
This, if anything, increased the boom, and London Stock Exchange gigolos-the well-born young Englishmen with wealthy women friends who get 50% commission on orders they put in the way of regular brokers-were chided by the financial editor of Lord Beaverbrook's patriotic Daily Express. Wrote he: "I hear that the 'half commission boys' in the West End are speculating in aircraft shares on behalf of their clients, the ladies. This is always a bad sign...
...death of beloved George V filled the Kingdom's illustrated papers for weeks with every conceivable picture of His late Majesty. Instinctively, out of all the thousands, Englishmen picked one snapshot as their favorite (see cut). Last week began a movement to cast in enduring bronze kindly, paternal King George and the grinning little paint-pot boy who proffered a small, grimy paw to His Majesty in a British shipyard in 1917. "Find that boy!" ordered London editors last week. Soon John Michael Cassidy was found. He turned out to have been in 1917 not the child he looks...