Word: liverpool
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...vessel was torpedoed about 10 P.M. last Tuesday night in the stormtossed Atlantic, 600 miles off the British coast, and 83 children were lost, virtually all of them from heavily-bombed districts of London, Liverpool and other cities...
While London's lot created the biggest headlines, the Luftwaffe by night expanded and intensified its bombing pattern all over Great Britain. Liverpool and Birkenhead, the great shipping and shipbuilding centres of the west, received their first heavy bombings last week. So did Manchester, the Midlands textile centre. So did Derby, where Rolls-Royce engines are made for Britain's Spitfire and Hurricane fighters. Other motor and aircraft factories at Birmingham and Coventry, attacked before, were attacked again & again. While the Germans hammered these targets, they continued pounding at seaports: Cardiff, Bristol, Portsmouth, Harwich, Dungeness, Hull. Only British...
...Britain's ports, which last week reached to Liverpool (see p. 20) and included new batches of German mines laid by air in many harbors, tended to obscure Germany's continued war on British shipping at sea. Reviewing the year, Minister of Shipping Ronald Hibbert Cross last week reported that while she lost 1,900,000 merchant tons, Britain more than replaced it with 2,000,000 tons built, bought, leased and captured. He cited 33,000 vessels escorted in convoys during the year...
Fifteen-year-old John Anderton of Nottingham, remembering a German bombers' raid on Liverpool the night before the Samaria sailed, told reporters how it felt to come within sight of the skylit glare of New York City. Said he: "Our first thought was to shout, 'Turn out them lights...
...tons a year) is the U. S.; No. 2 is Europe. Living in Spain since war began, Patino wanted to keep in with both sides. He tried to scare the Germans by dangling his tin elsewhere, but bit his nails for fear they would just bomb his Liverpool plant. He changed his mind half a dozen times about whether to come to the U. S. When the State Department failed to jitter at his Nazi flirtations, made him no offers, he came anyway...