Word: midlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said the London Midland & Scottish Railway, which had just barred its train platform at Preston, Lancashire, to all except passengers: "The station has been used by young girls to pick up men. They have made an absolute nuisance of themselves...
Died. Reginald McKenna, 80, onetime Chancellor of Britain's Exchequer, onetime First Lord of the Admiralty, since 1919 chairman of London's Midland (largest) Bank; in London.' As First Lord of the Admiralty (1908-11) he battled for British naval expansion against President of the Board of Trade Winston Churchill-who succeeded him in the naval post in time for World...
Folklore. In Kansas City, Dr. Richard H. Freyberg, researcher in arthritis, declared that aches in the joints were no good as weather forecasters. In Midland Park, N.J., Henry John Mulder, who had always gone to bed at 6 p.m., risen at 5:30 a.m., reached the age of 100, healthy and in his right mind, but still not wealthy...
...Barclays Bank Ltd., Lloyds Bank Ltd., Midland Bank Ltd., National Provincial Bank Ltd., Westminster Bank...
...Midland, Tex. he watched a youngster who had trudged in only a week before go 4,000 feet aloft in a twin-engine bombardier-trainer plane, drop a stick of bombs smack in the center of a 100-ft. circle. He saw San Antonio's student navigators, riding on motor-drawn platforms above a classroom map, work out problems they would face in the air. At Harlingen, Tex. he watched blindfolded enlisted men take machine guns apart and put them together again by touch, as they must in the gloom of a tail turret on a night-bombing mission...