Word: dumbarton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Announcement came out of England that the shipbuilding firm of William Denny & Brothers, of Dumbarton, Scotland, was to build an experimental ship whose propulsive steam would be retained in water-tube boilers capable of sustaining a pressure of 550 Ibs. to the square inch - more than twice the steam pressure of any steam installation used aboard ship today. This announcement, though it followed close upon the heels of a paper read by a famed engineer before the British Institution of Naval Engineering suggesting that steam turbines could be developed with pressures hitherto undreamed of, might have attracted little notice...
...David Kirkwood, Labor member for Dumbarton, is what the English call a "character"-which means that he is not amenable to discipline or respectful of convention. A typical Scot, he is certainly one of the most outstanding men of the Parliamentary Labor Party and, in spite of his rough humor and coarse tactics, is well liked by the Liberals and most of the Conservatives...