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...other sciences that have gone into the making of Queen Mary, astronomy was added last week. Astronomers and meteorologists agreed that one of the highest spring tides could be expected at about 2 p. m. to float the great Cunard White Star liner from John Brown's shipyard down the shallow Clyde...
Queen Mary. His first duty in Glasgow last week was to go out to John Brown's shipyard to inspect Queen Mary, the British challenger to the French champion Normandie, "Largest and Fastest Liner in the World." The Queen Mary is of roughly the same size as the 160,000-horsepower Normandie but of 40,000 greater horsepower. Hull designs of the two superships are sufficiently different to make horsepower not necessarily the decisive factor. Obviously the speed trials of the Queen Mary late this month off Ireland will be an international sporting event of first magnitude. Aboard...
...Majesty. Instinctively, out of all the thousands, Englishmen picked one snapshot as their favorite (see cut). Last week began a movement to cast in enduring bronze kindly, paternal King George and the grinning little paint-pot boy who proffered a small, grimy paw to His Majesty in a British shipyard in 1917. "Find that boy!" ordered London editors last week. Soon John Michael Cassidy was found. He turned out to have been in 1917 not the child he looks in the picture but a 16-year-old runt. Now 4 ft. 6 in. tall, nearly toothless, prematurely aged and jobless...
...shipyard, a foreman asks for a wedge. Chaplin knocks one out of a cradle, thus launching an unfinished boat. He goes back to work in the steel factory. The workers go on strike. He gets a job as night watchman in a department store where he enjoys roller skating through the corridors at night. When three old cronies break into the store, Chaplin is constrained to share a snack with them in the wine department. Next morning he wakes up on a counter under a mass of lingerie. He goes to jail...
While a great roll of blueprints was arriving at a Shanghai shipyard last week, a number of wealthy U. S. sportsmen were receiving in their morning mail an illustrated brochure entitled "A CRUISE FROM HONG KONG TO PARIS ABOARD AN OCEAN-GOING NING PO JUNK. It is the idea of a few men who have sailed together before. They need a few additional subscribing shipmates." Subscription for a six-month cruise in the poop of a Chinese junk: $3,000 in advance. Not quite so mad as it sounded was the Ning Po Junk expedition. It was a bitter blow...