Word: tyne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France," a well-traveled patient told a doctor in Newcastle upon Tyne, "when a horse develops clots in its legs, it is treated with a diet of garlic and onions." The doctor was a Burma-born heart-disease researcher, I. Sudhakaran Menon, and the remark suggested to him a novel line of attack on the problem of clot formation in human blood vessels...
...jetting on weekends to serve hunt breakfasts in Virginia and midnight suppers in Houston (his charge: $125 per party, plus expenses). Over Christmas and New Year's, in addition to making omelets for five parties in three days in Manhattan, Stanish flew to Nashville, where Mrs. William Tyne says: "There's no question about it; he made the party," and to Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. There Mrs. Charles McCusland White reports "everyone adored it; he talked as he worked, answering questions and giving out cooking tips." Deb Daughter Jane White pronounced him "just fantastic. My friends went back...
...some 1,300,000 tons, representing 10% of world total, were under construction in British yards v. Japan's 4,200,000 tons, or 31.6%. While that is still a rather wide gap, Sir John Hunter, 55, head of the Swan Hunter Group of shipbuilders on the Tyne, says: "We are beginning to see some daylight...
Supertankers for Survival. Net earnings of Swan Hunter are expected to reach $2,800,000 this year, $1,000,000 more than in 1966. By Jan. 1, the firm will merge with three other Tyneside firms to form Swan, Hunter & Tyne Shipbuilders and become one of the few British shipbuilders able to handle the mammoth tankers that are becoming a key to the industry's survival. Two Esso tankers, 240,000 tons each, bigger than any ship ever built in Britain, will go up in their yards. Belfast's Harland & Wolff will build two more, at a price...
...Nasser." The shutdown of the Suez Canal came as a boon for shipbuilders. The Japanese, who got their first boost with the 1956 closing of the canal, underbid the European builders by about 10% and soon had their order books bulging, with delivery dates stretching through 1971. Swan, Hunter & Tyne promised faster delivery, contracted to finish its first Esso supertanker by August...