Word: essex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motion-picture camera, Inventor Porter lived to participate in important research on sound and color films. In 1899 he made for Edison the first story film when he produced a 500-ft. subject called The Life of an American Fireman. Four years later, in the wilds of Essex County, N.J., he made The Great Train Robbery, first Western thriller...
Sister of the Yorktown and Enterprise, smaller than the 33,000-ton Saratoga and Lexington, bigger than the Ranger and Wasp, Hornet is one of five carriers ordered before the U. S. decided on a two-ocean Navy. The other four (Kearsarge, Essex, Bon Homme Richard and Intrepid) are on the way. After them will come seven more, all ordered (and all under construction). Barring a war, in 1945-46 the U. S. will have 18 carriers. If Britain should fall this spring and surrender its fleet intact to Germany, the U. S. Navy's carrier equipment would...
Typical cases last week: Ralph Ellmore of Essex got six months for stealing a washing wringer from a bombed house; two soldiers, William Hart, 19, and James MacDonald, 20, got a total haul of a cigaret lighter, cigaret case and cigarets, drew one day's sentence but were detained a fortnight. The loot was often trifling, but the principle was bad. Warned the News Chronicle: "If the looting went unchecked it would swiftly pave the way for social breakdown and anarchy . . ."; the Sunday Dispatch in an editorial titled "Forward the Gallows" snapped: "Someone should be hanged-quickly." Military...
Before dawn, they passed the bill. Over another veto they passed another bill giving the Superintendent of Elections the right to call on the State police to patrol Hudson (and Essex) County elections. They also passed a bill which revised the handling of election offenses. Then they went home with the milkman...
Last week there were raids on ports (Dover, Portland, Southampton, Glasgow, Billingham, Newcastle), on Lancashire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent, Berkshire, Sussex, Surrey and the industrial Midlands-places which have been bombed since early August. Last week's raids on these spots were apparently not the worst of the war but no U. S. observers were present to tell how little or how much damage had been done. The British would not admit it, but there were probably serious hitches in armament production. One aircraft factory was hit badly enough to lose perhaps a sixth of its production. This week Minister...