Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...will grow many times more serious. They had gradually come to the conclusion that one of the weakest links in Britain's defenses might prove to be a shortage of destroyers. Destroyers are vital in convoy service, a sufficient number of British destroyers might be the difference between success and failure in repelling a German invasion of Britain by sea. But next to trawlers, destroyers have also suffered most from air bombings. Up to last week Britain had lost 23 of her pre-war fleet of 192 destroyers. The question that Navy men pondered was whether...
...other side of Alexandria, at Haifa in Palestine, where the British oil pipeline from Mosul reaches tidewater, the Italians claimed a success last week which the British did not deny. Ten big Italian bombers, flying at great altitude from the Dodecanese Islands, giving the British bases at Cyprus a wide berth, dumped 50 bombs on the Haifa oil terminal and refinery, started fires which burned for days afterward. British pursuit ships from a base on Mt. Carmel were too late to overhaul the hit-&-run Italians...
...Francis Friday Griffiths, chief of scientific investigations for the Oregon State Game Commission, last week announced success of a twilight sleep technique for steelheads. The fish are taken from the traps, dunked in a solution of two parts of ether to 100 parts of water. Inert after a minute or two, they are easily stripped with practically no loss of eggs or milt. Then they are returned to their normal water, are soon as sprightly as ever. Hatchery superintendents believe that ether anesthesia will enable them to work with smaller crews next spring...
...popular and publicity success, the New York World's Fair of 1939 was a financial flop. By midseason, exhibitors and merchants holding $28,000,000 of its 4% debentures had forced out overconfident Grover Whalen, put Banker Harvey Dow Gibson (Manufacturers Trust Co.) in charge of the books. In September, to help the Fair pay its bills, bondholders had to sacrifice their 40% lien on the gate receipts. During 1939, the bonds dropped from...
...onetime photographer's model who still acts as though he were afraid of scaring the birdie. He behaves more timidly than usual when Cinemactress de Havilland scowls at him over the bridge of her fiddle. Piqued at her assignments on her return to Warners from her success as Melanie in Gone With the Wind, Miss de Havilland flounced out of the studio. Brought flouncing back by suspension (the big stick with which the Warner Brothers have subdued Bette Davis, Priscilla Lane, James Cagney, Ann Sheridan), spunky Miss de Havilland kept the Brothers and her fellow players guessing about...