Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...improved Nelson class, carry ten 14-inch and 16 5¼-inch guns, with a 14-inch armor belt and a 6¾-inch deck for protection against bombs and plunging fire. The Nelson and Rodney carry nine 16-inch guns, are the only ships in the Royal Navy carrying guns that size. But since 14-inch guns have been improved, power of fire of the new ships is almost the same as the old, and number of rounds fired per minute is higher...
Forty thousand people crowded Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd.'s historic shipyard at Birkenhead. Princess Mary, the Princess Royal, only sister of the Duke of Windsor, said, "I name this ship Prince of Wales. May God guide her and guard and keep all who sail in her." Robert Johnson, head of Cammell Laird, was less restrained: "If I were in Chancellor Hitler's shoes and heard of the wonderful speed at which we can turn out our ships, I think I'd turn on my axis...
Last week in London King George and Queen Elizabeth, before sailing for Canada (see p. 24), went to hear Maestro Arturo Toscanini conduct a Beethoven concert in Queen's Hall. During the intermission the King invited the Maestro to visit him in the royal box. The Maestro, who once shushed Mussolini for talking during a concert, sent word that a royal presentation would distract him too much...
Engagement Broken. Mary Ellery Channing, Boston post-debutante, and David Scrymgeour (pronounced skrimjer) Wedderburn, Royal Scots Guards officer, equerry to the Duke of Gloucester; in London...
...London, the gaffers of the Royal Meteorological Society, impressed by the excellent observations he had been mailing in for three years, proffered Roger Cade a fellowship in the Society. Roger proved to be 14 years old. Anxious beard-wagging over the by-laws discovered no age limit at either end for Fellows, so Roger Cade was admitted...