Word: ryding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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England's slump appeared in unemployment figures totaling 1,802,912 against 1,356,598 year ago; in slack seasons for seaside resorts like Brighton, Bournemouth and Ryde; in coal production, down from 20,000,000 tons year ago to 17,000,000 this June. The figures which most jolted British investors were the earning reports of the four chief railway companies-London & North Eastern, London, Midland & Scottish, Great Western, The Southern. Fortnight ago, when all four showed net revenues far below expectations and Great Western passed the first interim dividend since its consolidation, there were editorials in many...
...replaced by coarse canvas, her mast shortened to almost half its length. In command wasCapt. Ned Heard, veteran skipper. All the King's warships in Portsmouth, the French warship Bison, the King's yacht Victoria & Albert, and the fleet of yachts gathered for summer sail- ing in Ryde, Cowes, Calshot were signaling good luck, but the west wind almost tore their signal flags away and when Captain Heard and Ocean Pilot Henry Paul saw how the Solent looked they put into Ryde to wait for better weather. Sir Thomas Lipton, 80, still weak from a cold and lumbago...
...June 9?Trial races of Sir Thomas Lipton's America's Cup challenger; Shamrock V v. King George's new Britannia; at Ryde. Cowes and Southampton, England...