Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harbor of grimy Liverpool, swept by racing tides and shrouded in fog or rain a good part of the year, is a nerve-tester for ship pilots. Last week the test was easier. At seven control stations along the Mersey basin, seven navy-type radars scanned the crowding river traffic. Their electronic eyes could pierce the blackest night, the soupiest fog or rain, spotting every ship, buoy, dock or shoreline. Dock masters could warn a scuttling ferry (in appropriate nautical language) that a long, lean liner was fixing to cut her in two. They could guide a blank-blank collier...
Ships can now enter Liverpool harbor in any weather, avoiding expensive delays at the Mersey's mouth. Britain's War Transport Ministry will soon set up radars at London and Southampton. Eventually it hopes to extend the system to all of Britain's fog-plagued harbors...
Most U.S. harbors are not as foggy as Britain's, but Navy authorities believe that a system like Liverpool's would be "of definite value" in avoiding delays and collisions in thick weather. Plenty of radars are lying around, left over from the war. The Coast Guard, after a series of experiments in Delaware Bay, hopes soon to put some radar cops to work...
Copperfield at 40. "Success," observed Nathaniel Hawthorne, from his vantage point as American consul in Liverpool, "makes an Englishman intolerable, [but] an Englishman in adversity is a very respectable character." When successful Charles Dickens looked back on the adversities of his childhood, he found them too painful to disclose even to his wife: not until he was almost 40 could he bear to relive them, and to cast them from him into David Copperfield. Father John Dickens, the original of Micawber-"a jovial opportunist . . . who borrowed from anyone foolish enough to make him cash advances"-took twelve-year-old Charles...
...smoke-blackened sandstone building on Tithe Barn (pronounced tie-barn) Street in Liverpool, the world's biggest cotton exchange operated, before the war. Last week the British Board of Trade announced that the Liverpool Cotton Exchange, closed since 1939 would not reopen. The Government had decided to stay in business as Britain's only cotton importer. Britain's 400 cotton importing firms will go out of business...