Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until the Munich pact last fall, British doctors, like the Poles, gave little thought to the prospect of war. But immediately after Munich, Dr. John Henry Hebb of the Ministry of Health and President Colin D. Lindsay of the British Medical Association began working feverishly on medical A. R. P. When war came last week they had mapped detailed plans down to the last patch of adhesive tape for the treatment of bombed civilians. Far more flexible and expensive than the French and German plans for civilian medical care, the British war system will cost ?27,000,000 and guard...
...cost setup, with Correspondent John Steele the only staff man abroad, Chicago Tribune's Sigrid Schultz on retainer in Berlin, Waverly Root in Paris, English Newsman Patrick Maitland on tap in Warsaw. At home plate virtually the whole team is clear and quick-thinking, war-trained Commentator Raymond Gram Swing, who has been eating, sleeping, reading, listening, broadcasting round the clock in a 24th floor office of WOR on Broadway...
...consider the industrial and military technologists who apply other people's knowledge as scientists at all. The application may be far removed from the original discovery. For example, phosgene, which was first used as a military weapon in World War I, was first made by British Chemist John Davy...
...shouted by 52nd Street's Scotcha Ella Logan; one big, loud ensemble, hymning Tin Pan Alley; Tapper Ann Miller, who has some things Tapper Eleanor Powell has not; and a shimmy-shake called the Mexiconga, which will not be a successor to Producer White's Black Bottom. Sorriest Scandal: John L. Lewis picketing a bedded couple who refuse to join a union...
Four Feathers (John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith; TIME...