Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headway among oilmen, but he found that his scheme was just as good for tapping sources of water and gas. He drilled Ranney horizontal water wells in London and Lisbon and for 20 U.S. industrial plants, started a $20.000,000 water well in Paris just before the war. In Sydney, Australia, a Ranneywell yields...
...Question. According to the Sydney Sunday Telegraph, the favorite Australian poser concerning the U.S. is the Negro problem. Sydney folks wanted to know whether a Negro could become President, how the U.S. proposed to settle the Negro problem "in view of the coming recognition of the equality of other races with the white." They also wanted to know whether Mary Pickford was still married, what the Statue of Liberty represented, how much to believe of the Hollywood version of the U.S., whether the people prefer nightclubs to churchgoing...
Going Forward. All this started in August 1914 when young Carl, a mechanical engineer for the Swedish Match Trust, arrived in Sydney, Australia to build a match factory on the very day that Germany and Great Britain went...
Both Sweden and the Match Trust were suspect to the British, so Fridén, stuck with no funds or friends, got a job in a Sydney machine shop, and used his spare time to work on a model calculator (in Sweden he had apprenticed in a laboratory that had done pioneer work on the problem). Two years later he and his wife got permission to go home. They never got there-a fellow passenger on the boat to San Francisco, who worked for California's Marchant Calculating Machine Co., persuaded Fridén to stop...
Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr., spit & image of the romantic comedian,* took his Army physical in Los Angeles, awaited induction. He and his brother Sydney used to be energetic little globetrotters. Rarely publicized in recent years Charlie Jr. has been studying at prep and military schools, is now 18. Sid, 18 next March, hopes to get into the Army Air Forces...