Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought jam to tea-drinking Englishmen is a 30-year-old R.A.F. musician named Sidney Gross. Before the war he was a night club guitarist who liked to play American style with a few friends after hours. Then he heard the Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw bands play for the R.A.F. "When most English players hear Americans, they are so depressed they want to put their instruments away," says Gross. Instead, he wanted to go and do likewise...
...this, Douglas may get his toughest competition from natty, ministerial Glenn Martin, president...
...Glenn L. Martin Co. Martin had his own plane to replace the DC-3: a two-motored, 270-m.p.h. Martin 202. Last week, he sold Eastern Air Lines 50 Martin 2025, the second big postwar contract for Martin. (He sold 35 planes fortnight ago to Pennsylvania Central Airlines.) Martin looks down his nose at Douglas' weird new plane. But there is one catch to his own fat contracts. His 202 is still on the drawing board, will not be ready for delivery until...
...start in 1940, when University of California scientists produced a new, "synthetic" element (neptunium) by bombarding uranium with neutrons from a cyclotron. Neptunium has 93 electrons, which meant that the list of known elements was growing at the heavy end. It grew some more that same year when Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg and co-workers synthesized plutonium, which has 94 electrons...
Taking just two deep breaths, Army's football-wonders blew down Notre Dame, 48-0. Since second-and third-stringers sufficed for nearly half the game, Army's touchdown twins, Glenn ("Speedster") Davis and Felix ("Blockbuster") Blan-'chard, were still in the market for a good stiff workout. Last week's Scoreboard indicated that they might get one, or even two, in their upcoming games with Pennsylvania and Navy. Penn pricked Columbia's little bubble (32-7) and Navy finally lived up to pre-season raves by walloping Michigan (33-7). Some experts, squinting hard...