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...time, part of the textile industry of the region was ruined because India, Japan and the U. S. set up their own looms. But the Midlands remained a world armory and utensil centre; cutlery, precision instruments, cannon, armor plate, ammunition and ship machinery from Sheffield; locomotives, buttons, wedding rings, machine guns, brass bedsteads, safety pins, tires, automobiles from Birmingham; everything in pottery and porcelain from the six towns comprising Stoke-on-Trent; ocean-going hulls from yards at Barrow, Birkenhead and Liverpool...
...Century to 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...
Since the beginning of World War II British doctors, fearing another epidemic, have sought a quick, simple cure for the disease. Last week in the Lancet, Dentist John James Duncan King of the University Field Laboratories in Sheffield, England announced that he had found one: nicotinic acid...
...concentrated attack. Chief targets were naval bases, commercial ports, oil dumps on the southwest, south and east coasts, and munitions plants in the north (Middlesbrough, Billingham, Greenock). London was bombed only around its fringes, suggesting the efficacy of its balloon barrage. Remarkable was the Germans' failure to attack Sheffield, where many of Britain's biggest guns are forged...
...agents. More significant was the way individual businessmen took fire. Monsanto Chemical Co.'s Edgar Monsanto Queeny asked his board of directors for a leave of absence until November to work for Willkie's election, was refused, compromised by going on half-time and half-pay. Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co.'s Hugh Morrow announced he would raise an army of 30,000 Willkie campaign volunteers. Other typical Willkie enthusiasts: Wall Street Lawyer Arthur A. Ballantine, Armstrong Cork Co.'s President Henning Webb Prentis Jr., Chrysler Corp. Director Harold Elstner Talbott Jr., Southern Railway President Ernest...