Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Where the War makes news in such general fields as music, science, education, it will be reported in TIME'S general departments. For example, this week for war songs see p. 68, for the evolution of poison gases see p. 51, for an account of the evacuation of London school children...
...first diplomatic call. As he opened the front door to face the batteries of newsreel and flashbulb cameramen, a scrawny, tired black cat strolled casually across his path. He stooped and picked it up, while the newsreelmen went into a delighted frenzy.* The cat, counterpart of the one in London, named "Appeasement," which haunts No. 10 Downing St., was instantly dubbed "Crisis...
California aircraft companies readied 70 bombing planes for England and France. Telephone service to Europe was temporarily cut off; only calls to the Bank of England went over the cable to London, only official and banking calls to Paris...
...German planes dropped soldiers (with parachutes) behind Polish lines, where they reconnoitred, reported back to their army via small, portable radios. Poles captured them right & left, gave 'them short shrift. Over bombed Warsaw, the Poles erected a poor imitation of London's "balloon barrage," claimed that a German pilot got caught...
...which manufacture hydraulic pumps and variable speed transmissions. But it is proudest of its biggest and oldest subsidiary, Sperry Gyroscope Co. of Brooklyn and of its English brother, Sperry Gyroscope Co., Ltd., which has just set up a new factory in the English Midlands, to carry on if its London plant is bombed...