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...competition in the North Atlantic. Whether this "gentleman's agreement" would grow into something considerably stronger, they refused to prophesy. Immediate results: next week only one ship of the six "rationalized" lines will leave Liverpool for the U. S., only two will sail from Southampton, only one from Glasgow. Four British ships per week will leave the Port of New York, instead of the twelve that sail in the height of the summer season, the seven which sailed last week...
...Holland Tunnel, joining Manhattan and Jersey City; Oakland Tube, connecting Oakland and Alameda, Calif.; Mersey River Tunnel, between Liverpool and Birkenhead, England; the Liberty Tubes, 5,800 ft. long, mountain tunnels, sole route from the South to Pittsburgh. Ancient sub-river vehicular tunnels without protection from motorgas exist at Glasgow and under the Elbe at Hamburg. Two old tunnels under the Thames at London have been equipped with suction-&-exhaust fans. First tunnel to require a new type of ventilation was the 8,463-ft. commuter-used Holland.† For years Engineer Ole Singstad, assisted by the U. S. Bureau...
Enough Wheat. Head of B. A. A. S. for 1930 was dignified Frederick Orpen Bower, 74, Regius professor of botany in the University of Glasgow. Contrary to the custom of B. A. A. S. presidents whose addresses usually last long enough to sum up the entire scientific field, Professor Bower limited his inaugural address to a review of the last 30 years' work in botany. Sir William Crookes (radiometer, Crookes' tube) told a meeting of the British Scientific Association in 1898 that, taking into consideration acre yield and population growth, wheat would be scarce enough in 30 years...
Fast fox-trot and tango were won by a red-cheeked Scot with a pronounced burr, Roger McEwan of Glasgow. With his sister Alice he jogged and pranced through the fast fox-trot (he calls it the Quick-step). Swifter than that of 1929, it has more jigs, zigzags, nickers, turns and quarter-turns. One turn, for its peculiar twist, he calls the Lock & Key. Music 54 bars to the minute supplies the rhythms...
...British Blue Book further shows that in March of this year the Holy See informed His Majesty's Government that they "could not consent to a concordat on Malta so long as Lord Strickland [a Roman Catholic] remained in power." Vexed to the bottom of his stubborn Glasgow soul, Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson made his final reply to Pope Pius XI by withdrawing the British Minister to the Holy See, Henry Getty Chilton...