Word: firth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first airship crossing of the Atlantic came in 1919 when the British R34 (using hydrogen instead of coal gas) took 4½ days to fly from the Firth of Forth to Mineola, Long Island...
Last week Government Servant Hardie more than merited Churchill's attention. He had just fired seven directors from the board of one of Britain's finest steelmakers, Sheffield's Thos. Firth & John Brown, Ltd., one of the biggest makers of engineering steels and a pre-nationalization subsidiary of Scotland's famed shipbuilders, John Brown & Co., Ltd. (Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth). Five of the seven men fired were also directors of the shipbuilding firm. Explained Hardie: they had too many outside interests; the government wants full-time directors for its steel companies. It looked as if Hardie...
...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...
Clear Skies. The big housing boom had paid off for the building-materials men. A shining example: Johns-Manville Corp. had a net of almost $4,000,000 (v. $2,800,000 last year). The building boom also helped the sales of carpetmakers, while Firth Carpet Co. reported a new and unexpected ally. "Television in the home [means] more visitors . . . and a general realization . . . that many of the other house furnishings are in a somewhat shabby and outmoded condition, particularly the floor coverings...