Word: clydes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...area occupied by the Union Oil rig and avoided the present disaster. Udall assured the town officials that the Federal Government would keep a close eye on the drilling. "Always, Interior and oil officials led us to believe we had nothing to fear," says Santa Barbara County Supervisor George Clyde. The Government, of course, profited by the drilling; last year it made $1.6 billion in rentals, royalties and bonus payments from the Santa Barbara concession. The block that included the leaky Union well was good for $61.4 million in bonus revenues to the Federal Government...
...warning of cameras are ineffective, says Ronald A. Swanson, vice president of California's First Western Bank and Trust Co., because "amateurs just don't know enough to recognize a deterrent." Even if they do, today's bank robbers are far more sophisticated than Bonnie and Clyde. Although retired Boston Bank Robber Teddy Green cheerfully calls cameras "the best weapons the banks have," bankers complain that robbers are too often disguised with ski masks, wigs, dark glasses or turned-up turtleneck sweaters. Officers are also loath to adopt extreme precautions. One that has done so is Washington...
Last week, in a pub across from the shipyard, a worker said: "The QE 2 will be the last of her kind to be built at Upper Clyde. It's maybe just as well." It would be misleading to hold up the new Queen as a reflection of all that ails Britain's economy. But it exposed anew the casual management and slapdash workmanship that has become all too common in a nation anxious to regain the grandeur of the past...
Standing in the glow of the psychedelic lights of the ship's theater, the Cunard chairman, Sir Basil Smallpeice, announced that the ship was in such sad shape that the company would refuse delivery until everything was straightened out by the builders, Glasgow's Upper Clyde Shipbuilders. With that, Cunard scrubbed two scheduled cruises this month and one in February; the cancellations cost the company at least $2,160,000. When the ship will finally be able to go into service remained uncertain...
Last of Her Kind. Who was to blame? Back along the Clyde, everyone accused everyone else. Trade-union officials faulted managers of Cunard and of the shipyards for disorganized work schedules, and made much of what they called a premature delivery date-although the ship is already eight months behind the original delivery schedule. The builders furloughed hundreds of workmen last November, only to rehire them in last-minute attempts to meet deadlines. Partly because workers were angered by the layoffs, there were many acts of vandalism-carpets were badly soiled and wood flooring was gouged. Hundreds of workmen were...