Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wodehouse, you said the other day that you were 'quite unable to work up any kind of belligerent feeling about this war'? Do you know Dulwich, Mr. Wodehouse? It is the suburb of London where you went to school. . . . After a bombing near me, under 50 tons of rubble, lay human beings. . . . You should have been there, Mr. Wodehouse, you with your impartiality, your reasonableness, and perhaps even one of your famous little jokes...
...gaunt, grimy London suburb last week George Johnson Armstrong died by hanging, the first Briton executed as a traitor in World War II. A 39-year-old ship's engineer, he was charged with offering his services as a spy to the German Consul in Boston. With him were hung three alien spies. Another Briton, a woman, sentenced to hang at the same time, had her sentence commuted to 14 years imprisonment...
Last week the directors of the Garland Fund held a last meeting in a Manhattan cafeteria, decided to dissolve the fund. All the money was spent, except $2,000, which was returned to Charles Garland. Reporters found him living quietly in a New York City suburb. Said he: "I don't give money away any more...
...plant as an experiment, discovered that American Viscose, Du Pont and Industrial Rayon were hard on newcomers, shut their plant in 1939. The machinery has been for sale ever since. Naselli bought it with money raised in Mexico, last week had men dismantling it for removal to San Angel, suburb of Mexico City. By mid-1943, says he, its production will be expanded to 6,000,000 lb., enough to make Mexico virtually self-sufficient in rayon...
Died. Dr. Octavio Zubizarreta, 68, who as Cuba's Secretary of the Interior under ill-famed President Machado ran the secret police, was blamed for numerous wholesale political assassinations; in bed; in a Havana suburb...