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...Jordan, a 51-year-old British-born hairdresser who became a German citizen by marriage, was tried for espionage. Main evidence against Mrs. Jordan was her sketches of certain unidentified County of Fife fortifications (presumably a huge aviation training airdrome at Leuchars, near Dundee, or a submarine base at Rosyth on the Firth of Forth). With 42 Crown witnesses ready to testify against her, Hairdresser Jordan changed her plea to guilty, was sentenced to four years' hard labor. Startling was the connection between this sober bit of Scottish espionage and the slapstick comedy in Manhattan: a lengthy non-tonsorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: International Spies | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

Steaming at 15 knots the Leviathan will make a ten-day non-stop voyage to the 1,500-acre naval base off the little village of Rosyth to be scrapped. Sole passenger will be an auctioneer, housed in the Imperial Suite, listing her furnishings for public sale. Costing, with repairs and rebuilding, over $30,000,000, the Leviathan was sold to Sheffield and Glasgow metal firms for $732,000, plus an estimated $40,000 for the journey to the scrap yard. At the helm of a big ship for the last time, Captain Binks lamented: "I know ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Old Ship | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

Next week the grand old lady will sail under her own steam for the last time, to Rosyth, Scotland, and the shipbreakers' yards. One record she still held, to the last. In July 1933, between Havana and New York, she maintained a speed of 32 knots for one hour straight. Not even the Normandie and Queen Mary are likely to better that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Last of a Queen | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

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