Word: shipwrights
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...considers the American loan a disastrous mistake. (Prodding mercilessly away in the background is the wily, exacting Beaver. Says he: "So you want to know what makes Sammy [Christiansen] run, eh? Well, I do.") One reader whose political views Christiansen has never swayed is his aged father, a retired shipwright. When Editor Percy Cudlipp of the Socialist Daily Herald visited the Christiansens, the old man drew Cudlipp aside and whispered: "I'm on your side, you know. I don't hold with his politics...
...Molotov was a veteran member of Russia's Politburo, McNeil was at Glasgow University, trying to make up his mind whether he was headed for the Scottish Presbyterian ministry or for politics. (In Scotland, up to a point, training for either is training for both.) His father, a shipwright, died that year, and his firm gave McNeil's mother a pension of ?26 a year ($125). "That," says McNeil, "was when I turned to Socialism...
...crew were royal princes, each with his special talent and gift of the gods. The only woman aboard was a princess: Atalanta of Calydon, the virgin huntress, who could outrun any man in Greece. Argus, who built the Argo, was the world's finest shipwright. Castor and Pollux, sons of Leda and the swan (Zeus), were champion prizefighters. Nauplius was an unrivaled navigator (naturally: his father was Poseidon, the sea god). Orpheus could make sticks & stones dance when he played his lyre. Hercules of Tiryns was the strongest man in the world; he would have captained the Argonauts were...
...from Hot Pots. Arthur Christiansen - grandson of a Danish grocer and son of a Liverpool shipwright - started newspapering by covering parish council meetings, funerals and hot pot suppers for the Wallasey (Cheshire) Chronicle. By 1929 he was assistant editor of the Sunday Express. In that job he distinguished himself the night the British dirigible R-101 crashed in France in 1930. He leaped from his bed at 2 a.m., sped to his office in pajamas, remade his paper, scooped all England...
...principles of construction go hand in hand. Both make it possible with simple training to make butchers and bakers into shipbuilders because each man has to learn only one operation instead of the dozen or more operations which an old-fashioned shipwright had to master...