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...tars of South Shields, England's coal-exporting town that slumps at the mouth of the River Tyne, were excited last month as word flashed through local labor exchanges that Tynemouths Ltd., shipping contractors, wanted unemployed seamen for a special job. Last week, under the command of John W. Sinks, Cunard White Star captain, retired in 1934 after 35 years of service, the 65 seamen picked in South Shields emerged from third class of the liner Berengaria in Manhattan. Their "special job''-with the help of 40 Canadians and 40 U. S. engineers and fire...
Died. Lord Walter Runciman, 90, millionaire British shipowner, father of Walter Runciman who was onetime (1914-16, 1931-37) president of the Board of Trade; at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. Lord Runciman ran away to sea at 12, became a peer at 85. His own shipping concern was the Moor Line of cargo vessels, though he was board chairman-of Anchor Lines...
...border in Corning, N. Y., famed Corning Glass Co. cast the telescope's most important part-a 5,000-lb. mirror of Pyrex glass. The disk was 74 in. across, a foot thick. After cooling for three months, it was shipped across the Atlantic to Newcastle-on-Tyne, where Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons & Co., spent a year and a half making a polished concave surface true to the ideal paraboloid curve within two-millionths of an inch. Then it traveled back to the new observatory, where it was laboriously removed from its elaborate packing case, coated with silver, mersed...
Seamen last week acclaimed a blast from Newcastle-upon-Tyne against the condition in the crews' quarters of many ships. Professor Sir Thomas Oliver, 79, English authority on industrial diseases, declared that, due to insanitary quarters more sailors die of pulmonary tuberculosis, pneumonia and valvular heart disease than do landsmen. U. S. ships, said he, were cleanest in the world, British the worst...
...Britain's blighted areas have been enthusiastically praised by the Press on the theory that something important might come of them. Nothing did. Last week's excursion was hailed more temperately. H. R. H. gazed at wretched mining villages in the Newcastle region, deserted shipyards along the Tyne. He had the following thoughts to express at an unemployment centre in South Shields...