Word: portsmouth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steelman who disagrees with the industry's views-that present capacity, plus 2,500,000 tons expansion already planned, is enough-is Harold J. Rutten-berg, onetime crack economist for the C.I.O. steelworkers' union and now vice president of the Portsmouth Steel Corp. He thinks that the U.S. needs about 10 million tons of added capacity. To get it, Ruttenberg told the New York Society of Security Analysts that the steel industry should have more incentive to expand. To offset the inflated cost of expansion, the Government, said he, should give preferential tax treatment to steel profits spent...
...Charge. Henry J. Kaiser joined the fray. As owner of the $123 million, Government-financed Fontana (Calif.) steel plant and part owner of Portsmouth Steel Corp., he was nominally on the side of the industry. But in a nationwide broadcast, Kaiser, to no one's surprise, joined the industry's critics. Said...
...Welcome Home!" roared half a million voices from the crowd clustered 40-deep along the Portsmouth waterfront. Naval batteries thundered salutes. Sirens howled. And from a forest of mastheads bobbing in the harbor royal ensigns dipped in respectful greeting. On the quarter-deck of the Vanguard the Royal Family stood once again, berry-brown and beaming at the end of their 14,000-mile, three-month trip. As the great, grey battleship that had carried them so far slid gracefully into her home berth once more, Princess Elizabeth was so excited that she broke into a dance step. "Oh," cried...
...Neck. In London next day, many another joyful, loyal subject felt the same. It was spring, the Royal Family were home again, and it was the tenth anniversary of the coronation as well. London was in holiday mood. The travelers had spent one last night aboard the Vanguard in Portsmouth (early-rising dockyard workers scrupulously observed a zone of silence about the ship so the family could sleep until 8 a.m.), but by 9 in the morning the London crowds had already begun to gather at Buckingham Palace, munching sandwiches on the curbs. Drab Government buildings were decked with flowers...
...deep to watch the farewells. Before a royal Pullman smothered in hyacinths and cyclamen, the Queen pecked at her relatives, King George exchanged a last affable word with the Prime Minister, and the Princesses in girlish blue and rose beamed with excitement. Just as the train pulled out for Portsmouth, the clouds parted and a shaft of feeble, wintry sunlight strained through the dirty glass of the station roof...