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Died. Michael Joseph Savage, 68. Laborite Prime Minister of New Zealand since 1935; of cancer; in Wellington, N. Z. He introduced the 40-hour week, raised basic wages, scared business, but kept power through London credits and urban labor votes. Suffering from stomach cancer, he refused to be operated on during the campaign of 1938, found last year it had spread to his liver...
...bombers Britain's (and the Allies') best bet is the big, rugged Vickers Wellington, a husky, reliable weight carrier with a top speed of 265 m. p. h., and the lighter Bristol Blenheim (about comparable in size to a Lockheed 12) with a maximum of 295. But both need fighter escorts, are not to be compared in speed with the new German Junkers Ju. 88K which has a top of 330 m. p. h., can show its heels to pursuit with any kind of start. To Ju. 88K, and the somewhat slower Heinkels and Dorniers, Britain has several...
With these two at the forward positions, the rest of the team is composed of Wellington Ramsey, Cornell, center, and two captains, Robert White, of Dartmouth, and Thomas Erickson, co-captain of Yale, at guards. Each received nine points in the voting...
...Rotherhithe in 1798, took part in the British investiture of Alexandria in 1801, but did little sea-fighting. In 1807 she burned with 252 deaths off the Dardanelles, after doing her part at Trafalgar (1805) under Admiral Nelson. Ajax No. 3, a 74-gunner, backed up the Duke of Wellington's siege of San Sebastian in 1813. Ajax No. 5 (Nos. 4 & 6 played no part in history) was a wooden, 60-gun, steam ship of the line. She took part in the bombardment of Bomarsund Fortress in the Aland Islands (then Russian, now Finnish) in 1854 ("Crimean...
...Like John Wellington Wells in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer...