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...good deal noisier. He did not want to go to Eton, but when his mother (Marta Linden) marries an Englishman (Ian Hunter) Timothy can't escape it. Right off he makes friends with a cute little Lord (Raymond Severn), whom he calls Inky, and an enemy of Ronnie Kenvil (Peter Lawford). Tim's stepbrother Peter (Freddie Bartholomew) tries to arbitrate, but Tim doesn't like Peter either. By the end of term he has democratically banged his head against every Eton tradition. Between-terms he causes the death of his stepfather's finest jumper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The New Pictures | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...Atlas plant, Joplin, Mo., which turns out 1,000,000 lb. of TNT monthly for Great Britain, on Aug. 16, five were killed. 3) At Du Font's dynamite plant at Gibbstown, N. J., six days later, four were killed. 4) At the Hercules plant at Kenvil, N. J., in the biggest explosion since World War I, on Sept. 12, 51 were killed. 5) At the Army's Picatinny Arsenal, on Sept. 23, two were killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: Accident or Villainy? | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...peaceful wooded hills of northern New Jersey, at Kenvil, lie the 400 acres of one of Hercules Powder Co.'s seven explosive plants. In this sub-sylvan spot, men, treading softly, cook a recipe of destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Hell's Kitchen | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...kitchen at Kenvil recently went a U. S. Government order for $2,000,000 worth of explosives, and an order from Britain. One dav last week, in a solvents recovery building, something went wrong with the brew. A small explosion made employes in the other 49 buildings take alarm. Flames shot from the windows of the recovery house. Before men could let go their held breath, 200,000 pounds of smokeless powder went up in a hell's delight of flame and thunder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Hell's Kitchen | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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