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...well took care of rumors of the week before that "Young Turks" hoped to turn out old Neville Chamberlain for failing to support Mr. Eden's uncompromising hostility to aggressive Italy and Germany. The Commons cheered Mr. Chamberlain to the rafters and His Majesty's Government were keel down once more...
...completed ship the Allies took, handing her proudly over to Britain's White Star Line which ran her for years as the Homeric. Last year she was broken up for scrap. Meantime work was again started on her weathering sister ship on the keel site of 1914. In 1922, two years after Danzig became a Free City, the graceful beauty was launched, christened the Columbus. Until the advent of the Bremen and Europa seven years later she was Germany's largest ship, crack vessel of its mercantile marine; then the Columbus fell into third place. Re-turbined...
...York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, son of the inventor, grasped the controls of a pneumatic riveting machine, shot a flaming bolt into a 70-ft. section of the keel of the North Carolina, first battleship the U. S. has built since the West Virginia was commissioned in 1923. North Carolina's proud Lieutenant Governor Wilkins P. Horton shot the second rivet and the Yard's new commandant, Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward, dispatched the third. Before newsreel cameramen had picked up their equipment to depart, a battery of professional riveters...
...fighting ships, 212 of which, including 158 destroyers, were classified as "over age." Now abuilding or appropriated for in the present push to reach the quotas are 87 vessels, including besides the North Carolina and Washington three aircraft carriers, ten cruisers, 55 destroyers and 17 submarines, the keel for one of which, the Swordfish, was laid last week at the Navy's yard in Mare Island, Calif. Only nation to admit to bigger naval rearmament is Great Britain, whose 285 vessels are being increased by 96, including five battleships...
Most interesting to gallery-goers last week was a roomful of Viking art. How capable Swedish craftsmen had become, thousands of years before the first Viking art keel to cold water, was demonstrated by several shapely, streamlined, finely ornamented axheads of the early Bronze Age. The spiral designs chased on them appeared also on brooches, bracelets, rings, spearheads of the 8th to 11th Centuries A.D. In a glass case all by itself was a Viking drinking horn of heroic capacity, as long as a man's arm, carved from a single piece of wood in the time of Leif...