Word: stornoway
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...note: "From a bad Minister to a fine Under Secretary." Since he became so busy, Lord Beaverbrook has stopped giving big dinners, now has a few aircraft men to dinner once or twice a week. When he tells them they have done "first rate" they glow. Dinner at Stornoway House (13 Cleveland Row, London) is served by four footmen at 9 or 10 o'clock. Sometimes the host is late, sometimes he doesn't appear. Some times he rushes in for the soup course, dashes out, returns with an Air Marshal. After dinner he sinks into...
...late hour for Britain to ask miracles of aircraft production. But Lord Beaverbrook, a friend of Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair and a buddy of U. S. Ambassador Joe Kennedy, wasted no time lamenting. He got to work. The study of his palatial Stornoway House in London became his Ministry. He launched a lightning survey of the present status of British aircraft production, ripped out orders which brought aircraft-factory heads scrambling from all over the kingdom for lightning interviews with The Beaver. Most important of all, pals Max and Joe conferred regarding acceleration of U. S. aircraft shipments...