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Surviving Nationalization. At the helm of John Brown is Lord Aberconway, 51, a pleasant, unprepossessing product of Eton and Oxford, who succeeded both his father and grandfather as chairman. Lord Aberconway stresses Brown's broad outlook: "We call our selves engineers and shipbuilders...
Because such business is more promising than shipbuilding, John Brown will be paying less and less attention to the sea. The changing emphasis will reflect its motto-Nee Sorte Nee Fato [Neither by luck nor destiny]-which Lord Aberconway amplifies by adding, "Rather by planning and good work...
Died. Lord Aberconway, 74, board chairman of Scotland's famous Clydebank shipbuilders, John Brown & Co. Ltd., builders of the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth; in Denbighshire, Wales...
...Firth & Brown's 72-year-old chairman, Lord Aberconway, it looked as if Hardie had cut the very spinal cord of the company when he fired the directors, including three of his ablest technicians. The government asked Lord Aberconway to stay, in spite of the fact that he also serves as chairman of the shipbuilding company. But he resigned, saying: "I feel that without their technical and business knowledge, I should not be of any. help to you." At week's end Firth & Brown had only three directors left, two of them recent government appointees. ". . . The company...
...Labor Government heard the moaning, promptly ordered up Churchillian propaganda guns to drown the noise. Prime Minister Attlee appointed a three-man Cabinet committee to plan the strategy for "the Battle of the Bread." Minister of Agriculture Tom Williams launched a new "Dig for Victory" campaign. Lord Aberconway, president of the Royal Horticultural Society, announced that his members would continue to resist the temptation to reconvert to flowers. Pert Minister of Education Ellen Wilkinson appealed to Britons to carry on in "the Dunkirk spirit...
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