Word: belfast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Congress staged a vastly different annual convention at Belfast, Ireland. Hard-bitten Ben Tillett made another speech. The years have brought power and respectability to British Labor. There were no Russian Communists at last week's meeting. One of the Trades Union's two gold watches went to a Mr. W. J. Rooney of the highly respectable American Federation of Labor. And Ben Tillett's speech was as conservative as a bowler hat. With an ideology that would have done credit to a Director of the Bank of England, erstwhile firebrand Tillett pleaded for protective tariffs, increased...
Last fall Her Royal Highness journeyed into chill Ireland to the famed Belfast shipyards of Harland & Wolff especially to honor the White Star Line. She understood that they were going to build the largest ocean liner in the world, the gargantuan Oceanic of 60,000 tons. Graciously and with appropriate pomp Princess Mary inaugurated work on the Oceanic's 1,000-ft. backbone, or keel...
Last week it was startlingly announced at Belfast that the Oceanic as originally vertebraed by Princess Mary will not be built at all, that a still larger Oceanic will rise hulking in an adjoining shipway on a new and longer keel...
...Princess Mary should appear on the seas the year after next and prove slower than the 50,000-ton Bremen, vexed White Star officials would have on their hands not an asset but a debit. Clearly the Bremen has started an international speed war between all lines. At Belfast last week potent Shipwrights Harland & Wolff understood that Baron Kylsant would demand that they build for the White Star Line not only the largest but the fastest liner in the world...
With the Bremen sliding eastward intent on breaking her own record, rival steamship lines talked speed, planned competition. The White Star Line announced revised plans for the 60,000 ton Oceanic, whose keel, half laid, lies rusting in a Belfast yard. The U. S. Lines, freed somewhat of the shackles of Prohibition, planned two super-Leviathans to steam 32 knots (38 m.p.h.). Similar detailed announcements came from the Cunard and Italian lines...