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...scuffle hunters," for a vacant berth. London's answer was to build the great docks at Wapping and the Isle of Dogs, as well as gigantic warehouses to store the city's burgeoning trading wealth. Work on the docks spawned whole new riverside communities in areas such as Silvertown, which flourished for 150 years before fading with the advent in the '70s of container ships too big even for the Thames. But Ackroyd is no damp-eyed nostalgist. In the redevelopment of the Docklands area, where a towering new financial district has grown up and where the old warehouses...
...hour, ten and a half hours a day. When his boss told him two years later that $75 a month was his limit, young Tew walked over to Diamond Rubber Co. and got a better job. The first successful cord tire made in the U. S., Silvertown, was produced by Diamond as a result of a study Tew made in England of the Palmer cord tire process. In 1912 Goodrich and Diamond merged and Jim Tew began the climb that landed him in the presidency...
...John Simon attempted to reply for the Government, but scarcely a word could be heard thanks to John J. ("Jumping Jack") Jones, Laborite from Silvertown, who kept hopping up & down chanting: "We've got a Navy! We've got a Navy! Order yourselves! Which side...
...shippers had been busy. The Santa Maria turned about, met a Belgian barge on the high seas, unloaded TNT and incendiary bombs and then, with only a few innocent planes and machine guns, once more sailed up the Thames and put in at East London's Silvertown. Once more Captain Allen pleaded his case in vain before London port authorities, left for Spain with a cargo of sugar...
Goodrich-Miller. Suffering from lower crude rubber prices and competition, Miller Rubber Co. of Akron has not done well since 1926. Last week another Akron company, B. F. Goodrich Co. (Silvertown Cords), proposed a merger. Chief Miller products are tires (Miller De Luxe Balloon: "The tire sensation of a decade"), but the company also makes a complete line of rubber goods. Another recent step in Goodrich expansion was the acquisition of Hood Rubber Co. (TIME, Sept...