Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last winter the British press reported that war had greatly increased drunkenness in "a northern industrial town." Dr. Harvie K. Snell of Liverpool Prison promptly decided to see whether that was true. Last week the Lancet reported Dr. Snell's findings...
...everyone who gets a little drunk lands in gaol," said the editor, "but Liverpool prison serves a wide area in North-West England and North Wales . . . and so may be regarded as fairly representative of the country as a whole." According to available prison statistics, there was an appreciable fall in the amount of drunkenness during the first four months of the war. Dr. Snell's reasons: ". . . Resolute acceptance of the present situation in contrast to the wild enthusiasm manifest in 1914 ... a heightened sense of social responsibility . . . and the static character of the war itself during its early...
...temning local gentry, he closed the palaces, went to Europe, has not visited Bolivia since. In time he sold a 10% interest in his mines to National Lead Co., and diversified his own stake. He now owns mines in Malay (No. 1 tin-ore producer), a huge smelter near Liverpool. He likes to think he also still controls large smelters in Germany. He let France go on his cuff, and calls Mussolini "Mi Musso...
...centre; cutlery, precision instruments, cannon, armor plate, ammunition and ship machinery from Sheffield; locomotives, buttons, wedding rings, machine guns, brass bedsteads, safety pins, tires, automobiles from Birmingham; everything in pottery and porcelain from the six towns comprising Stoke-on-Trent; ocean-going hulls from yards at Barrow, Birkenhead and Liverpool...
...Liverpool and Hull, as the seaward ventricle and auricle of the region, are prime targets of Britain's midsection. York, Derby, Peterborough, Spalding, Stafford, Shrewsbury, Chester are especially vulnerable railroad junctions. Great Grimsby on the Humber, normally a fishing port, became with the onset of war the home of a minesweeping fleet and a big oil depot. (Near it stands the radio station to Australia.) Leeds is the centre of Britain's meat (and leather) industry. At York is the G. H. Q. of the British Army's northern command...