Word: queenstown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Niles Trammell, 50, shrewd, soft-spoken president of the National Broadcasting Co.; and Cleo Allen Black, 41; both for the second time; in Queenstown, Md., one week after his Reno divorce from Elizabeth Ruth Huff Trammell, 42 (alimony: $1,000 a month...
While operating out of Queenstown, protecting conveys and individual ships, with the aid of the destroyer "Fanning," Captain Barker's ship captured the German submarine U-58. The two ships then drove an attacking sub from the "J. L. Luckenbach...
...distance from Lough Swilly, where R. N.'s nth Cruiser Squadron and the U. S. Navy's destroyers based in World War I. But it is 200 miles farther, out & back, and in wartime at sea every 100 miles counts. The distances from Berehaven and Cobh (Queenstown) in Eire to the southern trade lane (approach to Cardiff and Bristol as well as to Liverpool) are even more disparate when laid against the extra miles the R. N. must plow from Portland, Devonport or even Pembroke...
Traveling all the way to Queenstown, South Africa to solve some of the riddles of the upper atmosphere, four members of the Physics Department will conduct some research on long-distance radio broadcasting...