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...already struck time & again at Devonport, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Brighton, Newhaven, Dover, especially hard at the bustling docks of the Thames Estuary. Shipping in the English Channel-embattled Britain's turbulent moat only 22 miles wide at its narrowest (Dover-Calais)-had been incessantly attacked by German aircraft and motor torpedo boats based just across the water in sight of Britain's headlands. Last week the attacks reached crescendo...
...apparatus to prevent windstorms from taking off roofs by vacuum suction (a falling barometer switches on a motor which raises flaps on the roof, spoiling a possible vacuum...
Fortnight ago the Columbia River Packers Association motor ship Unga put out from Astoria, Ore. to look for albacore tuna. Next day, 40 miles out into the Pacific from Oregon's Cascade Head, the Unga sighted the year's first tuna, touched off a new season for one of Oregon's newest industries...
Married. Anne McDonnell, 22, second daughter of James Francis McDonnell, granddaughter of the late Inventor and Utilitycoon Thomas Edward Murray; and Henry Ford II, 22, eldest son of Edsel Bryant Ford, grandson and namesake of Motor Manufacturer Henry Ford; in Southampton, L. I. Born a Protestant, the groom was tutored in the Catholic faith and married by the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Fulton John Sheen, who at the conclusion of the ceremony announced: "Pope Pius XII sends his apostolic blessing to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford II." Among the 600 guests: the Harvey Firestone Jr.'s, William S. Knudsens, John...
...obstacle: the long memories of manufacturers and investors, reluctant to put money into new plant that may be as useless five or six years hence as the Hog Island Shipyard was in 1923. The U. S. Treasury took the rap for Hog Island. Why should the stockholders of Packard Motor Car Co., for example, take the rap for $30,000,000 of new equipment which, after building enough Rolls-Royce plane engines to beat Hitler, might find its market destroyed by peace...