Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edward Jones is a blond-haired native of Liverpool who ran away from home when he was 16. He wandered about Liverpool and Plymouth until he had passed the minimum age requirement to join the Marines and just after his 18th birthday signed up in his Majesty's service. After a time in barracks he was stationed aboard the "Newcastle" after the outbreak of war and has remained there ever since...
Synthetic photosynthesis. Another attack on this problem is described in a recent book, Photosynthesis (Van Nostrand; $4.75), by Edward Charles Cyril Baly, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Liverpool...
Considered as a step toward hemispheric self-sufficiency, the rest of the tin deal was the rest of a fiasco. Patiño's companies are interlocked with the British-Dutch cartel, and he controls a smelter in Liverpool. His ore has always been smelted there, crossing the Atlantic twice before it gets to the U.S. After prolonged negotiations, Jesse Jones contracted with a Dutch firm to smelt Bolivian ore in Texas-with a Dutch East Indian ore admixture, which keeps U.S. tin technology tied to the Far East. To feed the Texas smelter he secured less than half...
...open to very few people besides Kings and Commanders: he saw the Air Force's hypersensitive spotting apparatus laid out before him. A large force of German planes was over England. The main attack, as it had been for six previous successive nights, seemed to be developing over Liverpool, one of the few British ports to be operating at nearly full capacity. Experts explained to the King how the night fighters operated. The Beaus went to the scene of action to try to get the planes coming in. In this Operations Room, wireless finders with vastly improved machinery...
Died. Mary Lawson, 30, British stage and cinemactress, onetime fiancee of Tennis Player Fred Perry; and her producer-husband, F. W. L. C. Beaumont; bombed; in Liverpool...