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Roosevelt orders navy to relinquish Brewster Aeronautical Corp control; Knox announces new dirs bd has been elected with C A Van Dusen as pres; voting trust established; co history revd
LONDON, May 20 -- The great South German inland port of Mannheim, center of large war production factories, including the Badische anilin chemical plant, was bombed last night by the Royal Air Force, which also attacked the U-boat base of St. Nazaire, France, the Air Ministry reported today.
Commons
G Loening predicts ship replacement by planes
1942David Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral, English politician, Secretary of State for Wales[†]
David James Fletcher Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral, is a British Conservative politician who served as a member of the Cabinet during the Thatcher and Major ministries, and was appointed to the Privy Council in 1990.
1942John Konrads, Australian swimmer (died 2021)[†]
John Konrads was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1950s and 1960s, who won the 1500 m freestyle at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. In his career, he set 26 individual world records, and after his swimming career ended, was the Australasian director of L'Oréal, as well as campaigning for the Sydney Olympics bid. Along with his sister Ilsa, who also set multiple world records, they were known as the Konrads Kids.
1942Danny Ongais, American race car driver (died 2022)[†]
Danny Ongais was an American racing driver.