Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Windsor people hastily set down their drinks, burst into tears, got up and scrambled for the doors. Housewives in Richmond, shopping on busy George Street, suddenly scattered like scared hens, lost their shopping lists, staggered tearfully home with nothing for their families' dinners. Near London's Liverpool Street Station, in the rush hour, weeping barmaids tried to serve hundreds of customers who lurched in as though half-seas over. They weren't, but they were gassed up. The A.R.P. was teaching the public a lesson. They had not been carrying their gas masks, and now tear...
...groused-it was their national small talk-but rarely had so many groused so grumpily as they did now. The Communist Party claimed to have doubled its membership (to 40,000) in two months. The Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, the "Red Dean" of Canterbury, told a mass meeting in Liverpool and a tea fight in Park Lane that "this feeling that the Soviet Union is the salvation of the world is growing. I want it to grow more...
...entire Jap tanker tonnage (430,000), and twice the combined German, Italian and Jap tanker fleets. But these and other Allied tankers were built for relatively short, peacetime routes: from the Near East and Black Sea to Europe via the Mediterranean, from Gulf and Caribbean ports to Bayonne and Liverpool. By last year Britain, whose pre-war tanker fleet was over three million tons (plus Norway's two millions), was already torpedoed into an oil shortage. Now the U.S., with some 3,000,000 tanker tons, may feel an oil pinch...
...bill's signing, the trained Navy gun crews, averaging some 15, will go aboard many a merchant ship, where the ready guns are quickly fixed on the already-prepared gun mounts. The ships will begin to move into the horizon, headed for England and Russia, will dock at Liverpool, London. Archangel-or perhaps with Davy Jones...
...Maybrick took his small, lovely bride to Liverpool, to live at Battlecrease, the Maybrick family home in suburban Aigburth, remote from the gaslit streets and noisy docks of the port. Florrie entered vivaciously into Aigburth's fashionable life. Only apparent flaw in her happiness was the antagonism her husband's brothers showed her. She bore two children. It looked like a happy marriage. But in those days all marriages were trademarked "Heaven." James Maybrick turned into a hypochondriac, morbidly dosed himself with drugs. Worse, Florrie suspected that he was unfaithful. She herself found a lover, went to meet...