The Archive · 1939

British Employment

'According to the latest oficial return, the number. of persons in cen ployment in Mares {is year wae 18,000 move than in February and {20.00 above the level of March, 1090. Ths tneans that more. people. ore now at work Great britain than' any month since Novem through attack and lack of attention. The Council_has been approached by several parties to. lease the pool for private enterprise. The nationality of the applicants has not been divulged, but as the pool is near the Japanese Naval Landing Party headquarters and adjoins Hongkew Park which, in atmosphere is practic: ally Japanese, the applicants are presumed to be" Japanese. 'The Health Committee has discussed the matter, and although members main= fained that as it' was constructed as a public swimming pool it should be maintained on this status and not rented as a business enterprise, ils unfortunate xeorgraphical location and the absence of normal (transportation which carried thousands of people to Hongkew Park make it At for no other form of operation unless it is 10 remain idle and unused, - The Health Committes has adopted the principle of leasing it on the understanding that a guarantee 10 cover the cost of reconditioning it is obtained in advance ind that it shall revert to. general public' use Tater when conditions permit. It is unfortunate that the pool is to pass temporarily out of [Council control for it was one of the brightest the Council's public amenity" pro-These are no days to advocate ex-Nravagant public expenditure but as the 1907 receipts were estimated at $27,000, possibly out fof the Council': extremely tight budge funds might be squeezed to cor at Jessfield Park, or some other convenient "pot ber, 1937, AN British industries, exe sats tin alli to which they have teeny ships committed "themeves. may be ty time before Great Jing. and all districts shared ere attccea [et extend to Spain that ancial alf in this Britain will consider the time

has already opened the prospects of {BIch it is claimed that country is in great a steady recovery.

Among the industries, in {eed 'The times do not warrant much Tend-Sites tha: Seeline' mant has been [IMR f British money abroad on the Continent, eat aethen ame public works {#4 until it is quite certain that such money contracting. agriculture, the distributive Would not be used for the purpose of strength: trades, and_eoal mining. One of the branches ening Spain ax inherent. to the Rome= which. British industrial developer hn been steadiest is electrical engineering, where present expansion during the past decade his been Femarkable. tu 1890 there were 18uO0 people {aad tu the clectea tiodes.|British Shipbuilding by 1988 tht total lid eds the factual being 313.289. the utiwok for shipping and shape tributed to this expanse suse of electrical power in factories, th bung "unch, brab and orders. for. least 500000 tons of new crea ships ae ext electrification of many agricultural operations, 10 be placed within the next fix months land the extended use of domestic appliances Omer for between 20 and30 new tramp ships Jdriven by electricity. Export trade has. how and cargo liners have alrendy been booked a lever, been a-factor of equal importance, the in. number of new acts will be ie tne next dex figure of British export values of electrical weeks. 'Many. shipyards "will "soon" apparatus having risen from 100 in 1992 to over 10 their til capacity, while others have 230 in 1998. Exports. of British electrical thing Fendy" for an intensive' shipbulllng pincering products continue to be satisfactory; Brotramme, This activity. began "before. the while the home demand is amply assured by tails ofthe Government subsidy proposals the extensions. to generating planix now being were known, but the President of the Board undertaken and. by the prospects off Trade, speaking ata recent meeting of the oilway electrification, Chamber of Shipping. of the United Kingdom, said that these proposals Were designed to. feccnomic and strategic. They constituted "emergency: programme" and Would, he suid Atlantic Air Service help to put the British shipping industry" sound bast fe ix indeed ttle doubt that The first machine on a regular service tins the new Government plans will not only. nian spanned the Atlantic and. whé revival in shipbuilding work, but Will Southampton, via Marseilles, commerical fying sip to man ime rests, The steel [across the world's stormiest ocean will, at lon last, have become an accomplished fact. The distinction of being the first" country to nor~ for snstanee, will mean steel malize a service across the North Atlantic falls about 250,000 tons. The to the United States, whose enterprise and ood effects of this: new development. will. be Initiative have carried American commercial specially in the North of th machines to other parts of the world, but under though the Scottish steel. tr American air navigation requirements passerly tremely active.

not be Gown across the Atlantic until as boom period of cessful Mights have been made. This 1997. Production rose (0 140,000 perfectly reasonable precaution 0.000 tons in January: enhances the security of the new lat was even better, Lelnye for the Atlantic has claimed. many pr tically double that of dani victims' in exploratory fights inspired chiefly by the spirit of achievement rather than the application of ordinary commercial methods to the possibilities of anew line of communica Hold Your Breath ions. "As the situation stands at present, the "Take a deep breath, Hold it..." and the new American service is likely to have virtual monopolistic rights for some time to come acbreath-holding marathon is on, bat it is dou cording 10 a series of circumstances, largely whether there will bean" improvement on rising. from the strained pol ingham printed" who, jin the world, but this does not detract from st for the Royal Air Force Volunteer the credit which must be accorded to America Reserve, astonished the medical board by hil aviation interests in forging ahead despite di ting his breath for rumwtes 40 seconds. The ficulties, "The original suggestion of Atlant RAF. has alway placed much emphasis on this services encountered much political opposition and other tests of a man's physical capacity. to because where a commercial aeroplane can judge of his behaviour in the ale under hu warplane will find it much easier.—Lom but, if his other abilities stretches of sea are no longer the formidable ral, this young ana obstacle once considered in the scheme of air tit" human specimen. A strategy, and aviation, far more than any other int represents. the stand-form of transportation, as a result of rapid although the ability to pros developments in range and power. is growing [0M the endurance beyond a minute is not a cee ce mane rare. The. Air ry's records. show. that several exploratory fists and. proved that should be between fifteen or sixteen hours from cor sare able tinent "is" an ordinary longer European conditions which have diverted con 'There. must struction effort tw military purposes the printing profession Produce sich mighty performers as the Not. South for it i not 20 long age. that work' in a print shop was associated With all France has already had stay othe crossing, nesses fon a commercial basis, while in the Southern RIPE and this case, the metal. In Attantic, Germany has been eminently. success iam printer. utter his dest performance, fal ever wer the medical wllicer at Not route by means of 'AL this goes [ipxham and a Win nae seunceaed cieomecil Tone the long delay an realiz relievable ca pect ofa Teamtilay nas litle time 10 direct energies recruiting. and almost repented his feat "his "breath for 3 mintites while Reginald Whitcombe, British JOpen golf champion who attributed his. viet tu daily" deep-breathing

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