Word: roe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women stopped coming to the pithead. Some families bought cemetery plots for their men. The newsmen left for other stories, and the coal-grimed town nursed its grief behind closed doors, wondering dully what it would do now that DOSCO (Dominion Steel & Coal Corp., Ltd., subsidiary of A. V. Roe Canada Ltd.) planned to close Springhill's last mine and major industry...
...backed financially and morally by Second Husband Humphrey Verdon Roe (a wealthy airplane manufacturer), Marie Stopes founded the world's first birth-control clinic in London. At its opening, crowds yelled that she was immoral, threw brickbats. But London's women made the clinic a success. Marie Stopes founded others up and down Britain. Gradually the stone throwing and vilification stopped (though the London Times for a while slapped a ban on ads for her books and clinics, kept it in effect until 1953). Thus far, Married Love has sold more than 1,000,000 copies...
...CONTENDER for $500 million supersonic fighter contract for 300 jets for West German air force is Lockheed's needle-nosed F-104 Starfighter, with Grumman's swept-wing Tiger and France's delta-wing Dassault Mirage close behind. Germans turned down Britain's experimental Saunders-Roe...
Died. Sir Alliott Verdon Roe, 80, British aviation pioneer who made his first flight (in a plane of his own design) in 1908, founded A. V. Roe & Co., Ltd., built the famed Avro bombers of World War I, later became president of Saunders-Roe, Ltd., maker of Saro Flying Boats and helicopters; in Portsmouth, England...
...books about Blake appear each season. Critically, none has bettered Albert Roe's profound study of the artist's illustrations for Dante, published in 1953 (Princeton University; $20). But the new Complete Writings of William Blake (Nonesuch Press-Random House; $12.50) fills a basic need. Most spectacular is a 2-ft.-high volume of Blake's illustrations for the Bible, sponsored by the Blake Trust and distributed in the U.S. (by Philip Duschnes) at a stiff $95 a copy...