Word: clydebank
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Times, where some newsmen are inclined to sit back on their big, fat prestige (knowing that their paper is the best place for important people to plant important news), Reston remains an unusual reporter. A cocky, calculating Clydebank boy who came to the U.S. at ten, he went to the University of Illinois, was a pressagent for the Cincinnati Reds, joined A.P. as a sportswriter in 1934. The Times hired him in London seven years ago. His persistent legwork and savvy worked as well with the State Department as with the Foreign Office: two years ago they...
...Built at Clydebank, Scotland, in 1896, she was one of the finest steam yachts of her time, a stately and luxurious craft of 1,780 gross tons. (J. P. Morgan's famed Corsair was 2,181 gross tons.) In 1898 the Navy snapped her up for conversion as an auxiliary war vessel, paying $430,000 to the Ogden Goelet estate. She saw action, took part in the blockade of Havana, chased three Spanish warships, scored a hit on one with a 5-in. shell...
...John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank, Scotland, on Sept. 27, 1938, at 3:36 in the afternoon, Queen Elizabeth gravely said: "We cannot foretell the future, but in preparing for it we share a trust in a Divine Providence and in ourselves"; then snipped a ribbon which released a bottle of champagne to christen the world's largest liner (85,000 tons, 1,030 feet overall) with her own name. Into the water slipped the Queen Elizabeth, and into troublous times...