Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Government pressure, union leaders got most of London's dockmen back to work after four days of shipping jams that threatened serious food shortages. The Glasgow strikers accepted a Government settlement. The Tower Bridge also was opened to traffic again: the Government moved in Royal Navy crews to operate it, and workmen redecorating the Guildhall for a "Welcome Home" dinner for the Royal Family walked out in protest. In Durham, 20 striking enginemen shut down 15 collieries which employ 20,000 miners...
From aloof Eire came a reminder that history, even in its moments of crisis like the Moscow disagreement, is fleeting. The Dublin Theatre Royal's weekly quiz program offered ?20 to anyone who could name all four Foreign Ministers at Moscow. No one could...
...days later, on Table Mountain, the Queen's hat blew off. Clad in khaki slacks and armed with an alpenstock, the Royal Family's brisk old (77) host, Jan Christian Smuts (who had walked up the mountain while royalty rode), hastily interrupted a discourse in geology to take off after it. He returned with the hat in one hand, a graceful blue feather in the other. The King, whose powers of observation are apparently not much better than the average husband's, wanted to know where Smuts had found such a lovely feather. "It's from...
Congratulated: Prince Carl Gustaf of Sweden, who was making a royal try at standing upright for his birthday this week (see cut). Next in line for the throne after his grandfather (since his father's plane-crash death last January), he was just turning one, already had the situation firmly in hand...
...Physiology, considered by some the finest physiology text ever written, will soon be published in English by McGraw-Hill for worldwide distribution -the first Latin American scientific work to be given such recognition. Dr. Houssay has been honored by scientists and leaders of a dozen nations (including the British Royal Society). But in Argentina he is now restricted to a small laboratory financed partly by the Rockefeller Foundation...