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...soothing syrup to spoon out to the Government's air rearmament critics this week, the Air Secretary received assurance last week from Motor Magnate Lord Nuffield-who ended his two-year nonparticipation in air rearmament when Lord Swinton was dropped as Air Secretary month ago-that he will erect a huge airframe plant on the outskirts of Birmingham, designed for mass production of 5,000 planes a year. The factory, expected to be in operation in six months, will turn out Britain's newly developed "interceptor fighters," which will be fitted with Rolls-Royce motors. Running...
...Oxford's Nuffield Institute for Medical Research, Dr. Barclay has recently explored the uttermost crannies of the living lungs. Notable result was a complete description of "the normal escalator action" by which the lungs constantly expel dry dust that is inhaled. Dr. Barclay made his observations on the lungs of anesthetized cats, which breathe at 30 respirations a minute (almost as slowly...
...Oxford, England, nervous, bull-necked Viscount Nuffield, 60, Great Britain's No. 1 motor tycoon and Oxford University's No. 1 donor, was working overtime, when police arrested a man who they charged had come to his office to kidnap him. When Nuffield heard what happened, he ran to tell someone the news, burst in on some employes practicing for a band concert, cried: "Well, boys, what do you think of it? Two men have just tried to kidnap...
...Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood, struggling to piece together an air rearmament program which will satisfy Government critics when the subject comes up in Commons this week, the loss of Adviser Lord Weir was more than compensated for. Lord Nuffield, Britain's top-rank motor manufacturer, announced that he was ending his two-year quarrel with the Air Ministry. Lord Nuffield, long at loggerheads with Lord Swinton, will place his mammoth Morris auto plant, the largest in Europe, at the Government's disposal for the mass production of airframes. The motor magnate had previously turned out only tanks...
Down the centuries the name Morrice became Moris, Morres, Morys, then changed to Morris before the present Lord Numeld was born in Cowley. His identified ancestors include mayors, aldermen, country squires, judges, surgeons. Nuffield's father was a Hurst's Grammar School man, but the great philanthropist himself attended only the village school. Hurst's Grammar School never ranked with Eton, but Nuffield many years ago bought it and converted it into his motor firm's offices. Now he owns it, and no 011 Etonian's son owns Eton. For his home he bought...