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Brit close in on Agordat; fight for Derna starts; RAF bombs bases in east and north Africa; Kenya repts South African forces taking offensive against Ital Somaliland; Brit rept Bisha ry terminal taken
Y Kuboi demands Matsuoka reply to Roosevelt and Hull censures of Japanese actions; Matsuoka replies to Hull, House Budget Com meeting
Local 5 exec bd announces willingness to submit roster, telegram to com
Makes annual rept on NLRB work In N Y, N J and Conn area
1941Beatrice Tinsley, New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (died 1981)[†]
Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley was a British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist, and the first female professor of astronomy at Yale University, whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical understanding of how galaxies evolve, grow and die.