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...mining shares, is empty too. In the idle House, the brokers drill four nights a week for home defense; by day they play Spitfire pools. These pay off on the number of "Jerrys" brought down by R. A. F. each day. The proceeds buy new Spitfires. Last week Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production, received payment for the Stock Exchange's first plane-a ?5,000 check...
Willard Garfield Weston, wealthy Canadian baker now an English M. P., got so excited reading the news ticker at the House of Commons that he promised ?100,000 ($400,000) to Lord Beaverbrook's Ministry for Aircraft Production, to replace that day's plane losses. Prime Minister Churchill conveyed the War Cabinet's special compliments...
...less popular than all this bon-hommousness was Mr. Churchill's decision two days later to call the efficient little' Minister of Aircraft Production, Lord Beaverbrook, into his inner War Cabinet. The official announcement said that "for the time being Lord Beaverbrook will continue to be Minister of Aircraft Production," intimating clearly that other Cabinet changes would follow. Most Britons hoped that this meant that Lord Beaverbrook was being eased into ailing Neville Chamberlain's vaguely defined position as Lord President of the Council...
Britons have also been anxious to get rid of prying Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper, and his house-to-house canvassers of public opinion, contemptuously nicknamed "Cooper's Snoopers." In that case Lord Beaverbrook was expected to assume the overlordship of the Ministry of Information...
...Defiants were found wanting after all, their manufacture discontinued. Germany was reported to have a fast new Heinkel 113 single-motored one-seater ready for the finals, specially equipped for night work and with extra-wide under carriage designed for rough landings. Guba and Mercenaries. Busy little Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production, kept his show in the headlines by buying .New York Oil Tycoon Richard Archbold's 14-ton Consolidated flying boat, the Guba, fitted for tropical exploration, and engaging famed U. S. Pilot Clyde Pangborn to shuttle it back & forth across the Atlantic with three...