Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sulfamic acid, for 60 years a mere laboratory curiosity, is now being produced on an industrial scale and used widely. Du Pont Chemists Martin Eli Cupery and Wallace Emerson Gordon announced that the sulfamates are excellent flameproofing agents for paper and fabric. Ammonium sulfamate sprays will kill ragweed, poison ivy and other noxious plants...
Beatrice Clough Rathbone, visiting woman M.P., admired a V-for-Victory tie around the neck of New Jersey's Congressman Gordon Canfield in the House restaurant. Canfield promptly yanked it off, thrust it upon...
...GORDON R. MONTAGUE...
...Office had apparently fumbled commanders again. In the fusty voice of an "official spokesman." London announced last week that Lieut. General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, Commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert, had suffered a "serious overstrain," had been replaced by Major General Neil Methuen Ritchie eight days after Britain's Libyan offensive was launched. This may have been an admission that General Cunningham's battle tactics* had failed. It was providing history with a scapegoat for the immediate failure of the British forces to clean the Axis from Libya...
Sunny River (book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; music by Sigmund Romberg; produced by Max Gordon) attempts to revive big-scale, full-throated operetta without knowing how. It seizes on the cobwebs of the oldtime musical instead of the charm. Its lush, long-winded plot, its stilted dialogue, its leering humor have everybody's nostalgia in full retreat before the evening is half over. A tale of New Orleans around 1810, Sunny River tells of the rivalry between a cafe singer (Muriel Angelus) and a society belle (Helen Claire) for a dashing young Creole lawyer (Bob Laurence), runs...