Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Imperial Airways was not founded until several years after the War-1924, I believe. It was an amalgamation of English lines, including Scott-Paine's own Supermarine Airways. running from Southampton to the Channel Islands and Havre. During the War Scott-Paine built Supermarine airplanes and made lots of money...
Married.Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, 53, Manhattan oil tycoon; and Pauline van der Voort Dresser, onetime wife of the late Oilman Carl K. Dresser; in Southampton, L. I. For both it was a third marriage...
George at Southampton, he led his retinue through Cherbourg's terminal with its American bar and soda water fountain, along the massive pier. He peered amiably at the ribbons of breakwaters. Then he reviewed a naval demonstration, ate a meal, zipped back to Paris...
...Southampton already has the world's largest floating dry dock, a hollow steel bed 860 ft. long. Water is pumped into its hollow walls until it sinks. The ship floats over it. Then the water is pumped out and the steel bed rises with the ship...
Notably absent and unmentioned at last week's ceremony was the heroine for whom Southampton's mighty new bed was made, the Cunard Line's unfinished 73,000-ton liner "No. 534." It lay last week in its Clydebank, Scotland yards, unfinished for lack of a Government subsidy. Designed to make 30 knots, cross the Atlantic in four days flat to beat the North German Lloyd's Bremen & Europa, "No. 534" last rang with hammers two years ago. But at a luncheon after the ceremony last week Cunard's plow-chinned Board Chairman Sir Percy...