Word: foil
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Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies has decided to reorganize Australia's wartime press censorship. Fortnight ago he started by kicking himself out of the job of Minister of Information and giving it to an inconspicuous British-born Senator (from Queensland), Hattil Spencer Foil. The most interesting part of the shake-up was that it followed the resignation of Australia's Lord Northcliffe -Sir Keith Murdoch, publisher of a chain of eleven Australian publications-as Australian press censor (Director-General of Information...
...Senator Foil, Menzies' successor as Minister of Information, started his career as secretary to the Minister of Railroads in Queensland, fought in World War I until he was invalided out after Gallipoli, in 1919 served on a committee to investigate "The Effects of Intoxicating Liquors on Australian Soldiers." For three years (1926-29) he was the Government's Senate whip, last October was made Minister of Interior. None of these things made him a famous Australian. When the Information Ministry sent out a bulletin announcing the Menzies Cabinet in October, Senator Foil's name was given...
...many of his countrymen, in the hope of "more opportunity." In 1912, he founded the store on Massachusetts Avenue, which he has owned and expanded ever since. He has never been back home, because each time he was all set to go, some kind of revolution broke out to foil his plans...
...Atlantic crossing, reportedly full stores of 21-inch (British-size) torpedoes for the twelve tubes, shells for the four 4-inch guns and lone, outmoded antiaircraft gun which each destroyer carried. Reportedly installed on some was Great Britain's prized DeGaussing rig of electrical cables, to foil magnetic mines. Aboard each vessel were some 60 U. S. Navy men and officers (about half the normal crew). They were detailed to deliver the ships (probably to Halifax), break in British crews. By week's end the Wood, Welles, Crowninshield, Buchanan, Herndon -eight destroyers all told-had left Boston, still...
Reynolds Metals Co. of Richmond, Va.. is a rich maker of metal foil whose boss, Richard Samuel Reynolds Sr., is a nephew of the founder of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels). Also a fabricator of aluminum sheet, rods, tubing and extruded shapes, Reynolds Metals imported about half of its virgin aluminum from France until war interfered, has since been a reluctant Alcoa customer. Last week, having arranged to get bauxite from Dutch Guiana, Reynolds got approval of a $15,800,000 RFC loan to build ingot smelters, probably in Alabama. Ingot smelters consume electricity...