Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that all. Of all the British ports, only Liverpool and those on the Clyde and Severn-lying on the western side of Britain-are operating at anywhere near full efficiency. Edinburgh, Newcastle, Hull, London and Southampton, thanks primarily to U-boat concentrations and to a lesser extent to the Luftwaffe's awful flirtations, are decreasingly effective (in the order named). The ports, in short, are bottlenecks which reduce the effective use of the merchant fleet to the equivalent of about 5,000,000 tons...
...Several universities have been heavily damaged. Liverpool University and some schools of the University of London which suffered direct hits have moved to other buildings...
...Philharmonic has been playing one-night stands, has missed only two dates: one when its busses got bogged in Lancashire snowdrifts, the other when Liverpool was heavily bombed. Without rich backers, orchestra members earn less than they did before the war; principals average $28 a week, "rank" players $16. But the men say their spines feel better. The Philharmonic now has a democratic constitution, is run by a committee composed of the Sub-Leader, First French Horn, Third Horn, Principal Trombone, Rank Viola. The Rank Viola-Thomas Russell -is secretary, too busy today to play in the orchestra. He used...
...brick cottage in Liverpool's Merseyside last fortnight, 19-year-old Ruth Owen wrote a letter to her sweetheart to tell him how it feels to be bombed. Her letter...
...score of bombed churches in England and Wales through March 21: 714 destroyed or seriously damaged (including 287 Anglican, 123 Congregational, 118 Methodist, 58 Roman Catholic, 17 Presbyterian); 1,945 others damaged (1,100 Anglican, 448 Methodist, 135 Roman Catholic, 106 Baptist, 98 Congregational, 18 Presbyterian). Six cathedrals (Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Rochester, Canterbury, Westminster) and Westminster Abbey have been struck and one cathedral (Coventry) destroyed...