Word: seales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world headquarters of the Society of Jesus, adjoining the Vatican, went all the Jesuits in Rome one afternoon last week. While they watched, the seal on an envelope was broken and a paper bearing the name of 71-year-old Alessio Ambrogio Magni, Italian Assistant to the Father General since 1916, was drawn out. Thus, a religious order that never stops fighting got a new leader...
Last month gaunt, radical Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons Sir Richard Stafford Cripps K.C., P.C., stepped down from his high office, accepted Prime Minister Churchill's invitation to head the Ministry of Aircraft Production (TIME, Nov. 30). London's editorial columns buzzed with conjecture...
Against an Axis attempt to take Gibraltar, seal the western Mediterranean and thus neutralize many of the benefits of the North African invasion, the Allies could do very little in advance. Gibraltar and its harbor are already chock-full of defenders. But, at the cost of resources sorely needed in Tunisia, they had to prepare to offset the loss of Gibraltar...
...recent weeks London reports had Churchill tapping eligibles. Newly appointed Lord Privy Seal Viscount ("Bobbity") Cranborne, a liberal, conscientious Tory and a Cecil, was asked. He declined on "grounds of health." Then rumor had it that Australian Robert G. Casey, currently Resident Minister in Cairo for the British War Cabinet, was approached. Lately came news that Liberal Party Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair was the choice, that Churchill had taken him along on a northern tour to sell him the idea. But Sir Archibald, too, said...
Engineer McGay's system is simple: 1) The rim (which should be drop center) is cleaned and smoothed; 2) the valve (preferably oversize) is fitted into the regular valve opening in the rim, secured with a lock nut and rubber washer; 3) holes and cracks are sealed with cold patches or vulcanized; 4) all irregularities are sanded smooth, especially on the beads; 5) the tire is mounted, then blown up rapidly and tapped at the same time to make sure that the beads seat themselves evenly; 6) tire and rim are immersed in water for the usual bubble test...