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... The Point of No Return?-- The recent market and dock strikes have, I hope, touched the apex of workers' folly. In the middle of last week, Mr. Frank Cousins, General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, obtained support for a settlement from a narrow majority of the Covent Garden workers. Until then the London produce men had rejected the terms negotiated and accepted by ...
... The Rescue from the Eiger The Single Survivor from the Four Stranded Climbers is Brought Down the Swiss Mountain after his Sensational Rescue Only one could be saved from the party of four which was marooned for eight days on thegrim North Wall of the Eiger. But this single rescue, by a team in which mountaineers of six nations took part, must rank as one of the most sensational mountain ...
... Hardwick for the Nation This 16th-Century Derbyshire llall is being Accepted by the Treasury Hardwick Hall, the Derbyshire home of the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, (widow of the 9th Duke), which now passes into the keeping of the nation, is situated a few miles south-east of Chesterfield. It was built between 1590 and 1597 by Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Shrewsbury (known as Bess of ...
... f M.P.H. AND M.P.G. (ADVERTISER'S ANNOUNCEMENT Donald Campbell writes about the MOBILGAS ECONOMY RUN AT EIGHT O'CLOCK next Friday morning, August 30th, about 40 cars will start off on the 1957 Mobilgas Economy Run. This will be a three-day event, starting at Ascot in Berkshire. The 950-mile route follows roughly the outline of a thick letter Y, with its fork at Buxton and its northern ...
... Executive I Aircraft No branch of aviation is growing with greater speed or promise than business flying. Hitherto the may not have been fully appreciated in Britain, when only-- a handful of companies have considered it worth while to put a private aeroplane at the disposal of there executives. Now, however, with our likely participation in the European Free Trade area following the formation ...
... RESCUE BY HELICOPTER AFTER AN EXPLOSION AT SEA-- AN INJURED MEMBER OF THE CREW OF WORLD SPLENDOUR IS HOISTED INTO THE AIRCRAFT OFF GIBRALTAR The 25,000-ton tanker had suffered two explosions and caught fire. She was travelling in ballast from Southampton to the Persian Gulf. Many ships went to her help and the U.S. Navy sent the helicopter from a base in Morocco. But fifteen of those on ...
... A London Newslette 195-198, Strand, W.C.; P.A.C. and Wasted Millions.-- How often in past years have you and I expressed our horror at the evidence of waste by public departments revealed in the reports of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee. How often we have complained that nothing is done to check it, that no head ever falls. I read with particular care a leader in last week's Times ...
... Evolution OF A Vertijet And Experiments with Ejector Seats in America The ancient Chinese used the device of attaching a stick to a rocket to make it fly like an arrow, and the same technique has recently been develoDed by the United States Air Force Air Research and Development Command in trials on ejector seats for jet aircraft flying faster than sound. To simulate the con ditions which jet ...
... The Moselle Valley AND THE ElFEL A Corner of the Rhineland which Offers Varied Attractions By GORDON COOPER THE Moselle is my favourite German river. Many knowledgeable travellers consider it to be the loveliest part of the Rhineland. Along the 120-mile stretch, between Coblenz and Trier, it follows a leisurely and twisting course below its guardian hills. Many medieval towns and villages ...
... Nineteen Miles Above the Earth Pictures Taken During the Record-breaking Balloon Ascent by an American Air Force Doctor A UNIQUE VIEW OF THE WORLD OF MEN Scattered cumulus clouds float above the earth, the curvature of which is seen clearly in this picture taken during the record balloon ascent from Crosby, Minnesota, last week. Major David Simons reached 102,000 ft. In the bottom right ...
... Ball-Bearings and Automation in Britain By THE SPHERE INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT IT is a far cry from blockade running to automation; but one of the most impressive examples of highly automatic engineering plant installed in Britain since the war partly originated in some desperate adventures with fast motor-gunboats in the narrow seas at the entrance to the Baltic, during the hostilities. One ...
... HOVERING PERPENDICULARLY OVER WASHINGTON-- the U.S. AIR FORCE RYAN X-13 VERTIJET IS DEMONSTRATED IN THE AMERICAN CAPITAL It is hovering over the lagoon at the Pentagon Building while approaching the landing platform. The vertijet had taken off from a concrete pavement and hovered for a moment before climbing higher and levelling-off into horizontal flight. It depends solely upon thrust from ...