Word: nottingham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After taking a Moral Science Tripos at Cambridge University, Wing Commander Straight turned professional automobile racer, won many contests at England's famed Brooklands speedway, became a director of 21 British aviation companies, married sightly Lady Daphne Finch-Hatton, daughter of the 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham, and in 1936 became a British subject...
...Thumbs up," a 35-minute movie vividly portraying the evacuation of Dunkirk, the burning of London, and shots of the British War Relief Society at work mopping up, is followed by "Warning," an official British movie of air raid precautions, actual raids, and the destruction of Nottingham...
...days in England, Willkie had talked with hundreds of businessmen-from a dart-playing bricklayer named Albert Phillips to William Edward Rootes, "the British Alfred Sloan," President of The Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders. He had visited 50 factories (in London. Coventry. Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Sheffield, Nottingham, etc.). From the evidence so gathered, ex-Businessman Willkie said...
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...
...connect the Mersey River with Aire River and the Humber Estuary which flows past Hull. In deep pockets on both flanks of the Pennines lie coal and iron (the min ing regions are shown on the map by tipples) near which the great industrial centres grew - Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby, Birmingham, Manchester. Around these cities lies "black country," shrouded in smoke, lurid at night with the red belch of blast furnaces, so ugly and acrid that a tough people grew tougher to endure it. Rail roads and narrow motor highways, with varied surfacing, tie the Midlands cities together...