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Hours ahead of time the river bank was black with people for miles on either shore. The two most powerful tugs in Glasgow puffed importantly about the stern. Six lesser tugs stood by. At 9:30 a. m. the bridge gave the first order: "Let go!" Then down to the engine room went the signal DEAD SLOW ASTERN. All up & down the river whistles were tooting, crowds cheering. But there was hardly a sound from the shipyard workmen. As the steel cables snaked ashore they saw their 7,000 jobs go out with the ship.* The problem...
Queen Mary. His first duty in Glasgow last week was to go out to John Brown's shipyard to inspect Queen Mary, the British challenger to the French champion Normandie, "Largest and Fastest Liner in the World." The Queen Mary is of roughly the same size as the 160,000-horsepower Normandie but of 40,000 greater horsepower. Hull designs of the two superships are sufficiently different to make horsepower not necessarily the decisive factor. Obviously the speed trials of the Queen Mary late this month off Ireland will be an international sporting event of first magnitude. Aboard...
...Your King." Quitting the Queen Mary bareheaded in a pouring rain amid fresh roars of "Good old Teddy!" the Sovereign drove off rapidly over an unannounced route with John Stewart, Lord Provost of Glasgow. Scotsman Stewart later chuckled: "The King is a very human man. In my private room he showed me how to balance a penny. When I tried to emulate His Majesty and failed he said: 'Please give me back my penny. You know I am a Scotsman...
This from one whose capital is increasing $2,000 per day or thereabouts struck the merriest possible note in Scotland. Cheerfully the King, in sleek long coat and bowler, set out to repeat in Glasgow slums the sort of famed house-to-house tour he made as Edward of Wales through the bleak, starveling Welsh collieries and "Depressed Areas...
...tapped the knuckle of Edward VIII's middle finger on a Glasgow tenement door as he cried, "May I come...