Word: aberconway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
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