Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also found, however, that there were so many details to work out in so many places that it took almost nine months to get everything running smoothly. But by last September we were able to start flying photographic negatives of TIME'S pages to a printer in Sydney, who printed up a few experimental copies each week for groups of news-starved men in hospitals and for others on duty in isolated areas. And last month we got into full scale production...
...story which revolves very largely around a product which most Americans take for granted-aspirin. Back in the '20s, Sterling gave up struggling against German competition in that product in South America and concluded a cartel peace with I. G. Farben by which Sterling's two subsidiaries, Sydney Ross Co. and Sterling International, became Farben's selling agents. This combination made Sterling a chief commercial aid to the Nazis after war broke out in Europe, because Sterling had also agreed to supply I.G.'s Latin American market if I.G. itself could not deliver. In the fall...
Died. Jay Pierrepont Moffat, 46, U.S. Minister to Canada; of an embolism; in Ottawa. One of the ablest of the career diplomats, he had been with the State Department 25 years, served in various capacities at The Hague, Warsaw, Tokyo, Constantinople, Brussels, Bern, Geneva, Sydney and Washington. He was chief of the Division of European Affairs from 1937 to 1940, when he replaced James H. R. Cromwell in Ottawa. He was a descendant of first Chief Justice John Jay, married the elder daughter of ex-Ambassador to Tokyo Joseph C. Grew...
Dark, muscular Sydney Robey Leib-brandt, German-descended South African, might have won the light-middleweight championship at Berlin's 1936 Olympics if he had not been too fascinated sightseeing to show up for the title bout...
...November, 30-year-old Sydney Leibbrandt and six of his Rebels went before the Transvaal Division of the South African Supreme Court charged with high treason. For a month Leibbrandt remained calm, arrogant, defiant. Then, last week, into the courtroom strode a bemedaled Nazi parachutist captured in the recent Middle East fighting. Believing his testimony would get his fellow Nazi "honorable" treatment as a prisoner of war, the soldier positively identified Leibbrandt, coolly told how they had trained together as parachutists in Germany...