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Another Boom
Year Ahead
For
Britain
By Vaughan Jones
London. tries will be pushed' ahead-
OBS for all in another although many new fac boom year on the home tories and extensions of old front is the forecast for ones will not yet be operat- 1956 made by Britain's top ing within the year. industrialists.
Output of motora is ex- But housewives will have pected to jump by anything to dig deeper into their up to 20 percent; electricity,
•purgeg
manufacturers by around 10 percent; steel, raise prices of many goods, by about 8 percent; chemi- High wages and lack of cals and cement, by good labour there are three jobs gains also.
ELA
for every two work seekers -linked with the boom
Housebuilding will
prices of raw materials may off at an annual 350,000.
force up costs in many far- Wage Claims
tories.
Overtime will not, how-
level
ever, help Britain to produce AN overhaul of the country's
obsolete road and rollway
much more in 1955 than in system will get undor way. the record burst of winter Pottuletans with press for plans 1954. Any workers willing to speed London's crawling to stand extra time at fac- trame.
tary benches for higher pay packets are already doing so.
New Methods
With labour in demand and Being costs high, workers will be strongly entrenched to press wage claims.
Economists will lik of in- fallon ahead, urged a bigger
FACTORY bosses will be share of production for export.
seeking new machinery Labour will demand dividend and streamlined methods to imitation;
Festraint
factory
bosses, of wage cials; the raise putput and eyeing puzzled public, cheaper prices in Amerien, Germany, Japan the
shops Businessmen (and others) will and other competitors.
in Chancellor Big plans to expand the expect tax cuts
Buller's April Budget, Stock motor, chemical,
market operators wit tread tool and other mujor indus warily in a high market seeking
sull-unnoticed winners.
machine
Stop Those
Horrid Lies
Your Skin is Telling About Your Age
Pemata
remature crow's-feet at the corner
THE CHINA MAIE TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1955.
Cummings presents his own.........
TO LADY DOCKER – The DC.S. (Dame of Cafe Society) for admissing
→ that money to enjoyable.
TO RON HEWITT- The Dlitinykished Trappide Order, for. refraining from speak ing to his 'workmates;
7,000 FEET UNDER THE SEA.
New Year's Honours List
TO GRAHAM SUTHER- LAND-The Order of Supreme Harbans for paint- ing à spade a spade,
by CLAUDE CHAMBARD
WE DESCEND TO
10N
THE
11
BOTTOM
"O.K. Let's go," he said.
Was
to
TOM.MENDES-FRANCE *-The 'Achievement of the Impossible Ribbon, for standing the French on their heads,
bottom so that the pressure in- vido
COX- the buoyancy tonk forms
cutside pres- with the
with
ment,
TO TV - The Order of Lenin for becoming the eplum of the masses."
Landon Express Berylos
Claude Chambard, correspondent of the Agence France-Prasse, is the first journalist ever to make- a plunge into the ocean depths in the bathyscaphe of French Navy Commander Georges. "Houst, and the fifth man in the world to have reached the depth of 7,000 feet (1·1/3 miles). He gives the first oyowitness account, of how mạn là on the way to realising Jules Verne's dream of "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea." the second of three articles.
This
Wo
she will return automatically to gently but, as soon as the dive
this motion the surface after ten hours," started,
`stopped. although
werd the steel casing of
"Just as an aeroplane is bound Now, space although he is well over
the to earth Lo
sinking towards sooner or steadily return I waved goodbye to the sur- six feet tall. the bathyscaphe,
bottom, I had no impression later," "Now to work," he said.
1 rotorted. the face crew whose work was now
movement. A team of sailors from
finished and who would have The upper hatch on the deck sure. The other gazoline com- But I could not help feeling of downward
showed and Undersea Research Group to walt for hours until we came had been bolted down. Our first partments
glance at the compass relaxed are linked by pipes Houot's company.
confident
As theme that the bathyscaphe WON The សព, again,
broko job
scal up were getting the craft ready up
these the
1wo "equilibrium"
rotating slowly on its nxis but I began to An officer through the clouds at last. Then baldaway of the sphere itself, compariments.
This system of minutes Licked by, for the dive.
the conning clambered down through the Houot had started the oxygen compartments limits the risks get used to my strange environ this movement was not notice-
able to the nenges. climbed into
arise from any different compartment which renews the air supply in- which would dark and chilly detached the between the upper tower and
deck and side, the aphere. Amed with a
in the buoy trays accidental breach Housewives will be railoned telephone linking the upper the sphere,
fubular ratchet spanner, tre set ancy tank, but by purse,
Supplies of
deck with the sphere slung
difficult part is to work on tightening the six- The most food, home-grown and imported,
the gasoline-Alled when you reach the hatch load- teen nuts which bot down the be varied
beneath and abundant. will
ing into the sphere itself. It
offered to lend tank. In the But Britons will eat little more buoyancy
a conical wedge of steel weigh- hand but this was a were than when rationing officially bows two men
pre ing 309 lbs. Perfectly balanced, would only do himself, tow-to
to manoeuvre.
I looked out of the porthole ended early last summer with
let go the
easy
But though the outside rim of the the freeing of butter and meat paring to
hatch is wide
for enough man to enter easily, It is a tight fit at the bottom of the cone, You have to wriggle through a hole 15 inches across to get in- effeling around us. to the sphere.
As
will
SHOCK
heavy dorz,
job he
which
ไ only 4 inches diameter but through which you can see at 90 degrees on either side. I passed the time watch ing
the frogonen
gracefully
My
a small joint costs ten rope.
al- shings and tea
Houot had Commander not far of
bolow into th the ready eight shillings a pound,
gune
and switched on the womenfolk
And house-sphere
which, during keeping allowances melting in electre-magnels
hold on the two
My brow was moirt with the grocers, the butchers and the the dive,
external
balleries, the guido
perspiration. Was I going to greengrocers,
will
paniet But shopkeepery
be rope and the ballast.
normal pulse feit the comforted by
I kept myself calm politer as the wealthier house-
and 1 Was wives carefully select
that the main break- their thought
WITH my left hand I clung to attentive to every detail. W
"I hope you are not able to goods.
down, which might occur, was I thin hop- e short-circuit.
the bottom rung of the lad pened,
the current would be der. My right I kept pressed to my claustrophobia," femarked Hauptt
myself with the ghost of a smile.
The cut off, the ballast discharged side. Then I lowered
was 'spirere
rocking through the
opening gently in the swell, and the blindly Loo ruddenly
It made to until my groping feet mads
me feel slightly giddy thoguh I THE politicians-Tory, Labour bathyscaphe would float up to
contact with a "stop. and Liberal-will be seeking the surface like bubble of nir. the first signal from Sir Winston It would come up a bit too fast Church which point to the but it would reach the surface. the In harbour and during date of the next General Elec-
electro-magnets are Non With
tow, the not in operation and the tanks the helie! grows stronger that a containing the metal ballast are Conservative Government wil bolted down.
Political Winds
Tory succesTES
ת!
guiding Britain to prosperity,
be returned, and that Sir Winston Churchill may choose election ume to announet his
rather
FROGMEN
BALLAST
But this does not take Into THE trogen
everything
Though I had already looked have never been seasick in my
life. over the bathyscaphe, it was a shock to realise that I was now going to be locked up in this tiny chamber. The inside of the
had now made Sphero is 6 feet in diameter. T
ready outside. account all the machinery ruch The men had left the upper deck the end for
on Houot switched as the control panel
electro-magnets,
bottles
of com- radio-telephone. pressed air, bottles of oxygen, "Bathyrcapho to Samson-re- an echo-sounder, a rodib tele- questing permission to dive," phone for use when on the sur- Houet turned the handle of a face and a tangle of other com- hydraulic pump
and almost plicated gadgets,
the
his retirement. The Conservatives are con-O remove these bolts a group fident that Sir Anthony Eden of frogmen, with
the will become the next Prime Minis-Cousteau-Gagnan breathing "P ter; Mr R. A. Butler, brilliant paratus strapped un their
tramediately through a trane. backs, left our accompanying
The living space left for two parent panel in the door, we la considered out of the pointed tupro
Tho Socialists, disappointed
rounded Banks, they
a contortionist. A9 I had to the compartment through which with Berco left winger Nye
looked like the weird Bish I ex-
leave the hatchway clear for we had entered the sphere.
"It acts as ocean Houst, I folded myself to offer proted to meet on the Bevon,
who has little
a ballast tank," UT MA now except abuse of his political bed.
the floor near the porthole. The explanet Houot, opponents, believe he will sink For my own part, I was just only scat in the bathyscaphe is This device was suggested by
in Party Importance. further
a spectator during all
these the steel step under the hatch. Frederic Dumas, a veteran of the old-Almer Attlee will preparations and did my best With an agility born of long Undersea Research Group, after And that
to keep out of the way.
practice, Houat swung himself the trials of the Arst increase his stature.
The country, indifferent to Houot's head and shoulders down into the sphere, He had
Professor scapho,
Plocard's Moscow's alarms, expects that [ emerged
hatchway already about Afteen dives in FNRS 2.
craft This
Was
as Chancellor of the Excheque+wch. Clinging to the bathy- men seemed hardly enough for could see, the water Rooding into
from the
cral
the
For the third time during the divo we let
of the. go some metal ballast contained in four vertical tanks BOL in the buoyancy bull. With an eye on his stopwatch, Houot pressed the button for 30 seconds, IO- caring 880 lbs of ballast. The pellets could be heard rattling faintly as they bounced
the sphere.
to the sight of the
instruments,
the of of chemicals to absorb to our carbonic gas and There is a thirteenth compart- cramped quarters. ment, independant of the gen-
9.76 a.m. The bathyscaphe system, which contains pauses at 130 feet. nearly
"Sho 400 gallons of gasoline.
temperamental This special tank enables the
Houdi, metal commented creature," commander of the bathyscaphe "She'll get going in earnest in a
rate of dive. few moments." to increase the
bathyscaphe is too When the
10.00 a.m.
Depth 140 feet. buoyant, he has only to let go The water which at first was
a
From time to time Hougt switched on his electric torch to
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A picture of the Bathyscapho. drops gently managed into your skin before retiring-next day a few more dropaused as a powderbaso. Thickṣeps the uneasy peace will continue leading down into the sphere the bathyscapher to his credit. carried to the diving point in some of this gasoline, which is opalescent is growing rapidly look at the graph, unrolling
for a last He seemed to fit himself com- the hold of a cargo ship. The immediately replaced by the darkor.
fortably Into the restricted two-man crew had to be shut denser seawater)
in the sphere before the bathy- seaphe wab
"Bathyscaphe to Samson lowered into the water and before the gasoline how are we doing?? tanks had been filled.
very dark blue, "You are going down now. During an experimental dive The conning tower to 82 feet, Professor Piccard ically disappeared."
had prac and Professor Theodore Monod,
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.
10:07 am. Depth 200 feet; Outside temperature 14 degrees. Water.a. dark blue-green
10:14 am 330 feet. Water
:-10.22
We
There
time to time a jollysh torisks" looking like IMVYA
switch out the Hg). We caerceived in the murk
sljenlly in the depth-meter,
.10.54 jam. 2,800 feet. drop some more bakast.
11.00 am 3,280 net. ath. 630 feet. The 11.25 am. 4,000 fest. There water looks practically pitch are still just as many lumlious dark outside, Luminous specks specks in the water. the French oceanographier, reThe last phrase came jerky appear in the searchlight beam, are lot of luminous "as- mained sealed In the sphere for over the air with moments of From NEW YORK, there would be a free cham- her on his knee for another 12 hours, After this experience ailence Interrupting the flow of floats upwards past the porthole half an inch long.
pose. But when asked to kiss Frederic Dumas suggested
that speech.
I guessed at the gen (in actual fact they must he sh dost past in the NOTA Biglers Eve WOMEN GUESTS hande
TOT a single bill was paid page breakfast.
in the her he refused.
the bathyscspho's buoyancy tank
Sometimes they can be "That's too cory," he said, be shaped a hull which could that meaning without hearing practical stationary, for wh
the complete sentence,
are sinking bags and the men got wallets. "Kissing's something you do at be towed to the diving
Inside the berond. A darker shape Be Doint But just to prove what a home
He proposed that an entrance A few holated words and sphere so as to have a better by. It looks like a squid. No surprise it was--for nobody in
compartment be designed to fragments of speech could still vict
outside. Loss Vegas ever expecta
THOSE hopes of freer trade enablo the crow to enter the be heard on the radio.
· any-
Then "There is silll a lot of light Ash to be seen. We have now passed the depth"" reached Бу thing for nothing lot me add under the new Democratic sphere just before the dive and allence. The perial was now compared to what it will be oils Barton in hi
like further down", would believe the Congress are brightening.
remarked that nobody
There is a move to make the to set as a ballast tank while well under water. The time It cost more than $100,000 chorus it's good news,
the bathyscaphe was submerged, was 9.68 a.m,
the commander, "It only" gela
(£35,700). But
completely dark between 1.800 this plushest Proprietors Jake Freedman ve percent a year tarif cuts This suggestion was incorporated. of the Nevada nightclub gam and Jack Entratter had to get under the President's programite la the new bathyscapho known "Here we go," said Houot, and,800 feet, depending on needle of the pressure, the strength of the daylight, and bling
where ailver on the stage themselves and do Cumulative. At present, as out- resorts,
Iined, each used five percent dollars clink 24 hours a day, can the convincing.
gauge was turning slowly the clearness of the water would expire after one year.
must now give you a lesson. In
10.30 am, 050 feet. well afford the gesture.
DACK to Hollywood last week
DRESIDENT EISENHOWER] ·
bathyscaphing so you will know and flow French ballerina PRE
what was thinking of metting up
starks "out the Goverments confused security loyalty regulations.
It was all on the house.
Just
as FNAS 3.
DESCENT
The
+
picosant surprise when a chorus Jeanmaire and her, new huisa reyal cemmalusion” to shradgft"../) ↑ "[QUOT· spoke again' into the to do if X'should be takén.
the same, it was
girl camo on the
slage after band, Roland Petit, who will anger Lena Homme to announce stage her dances in a new Alm. on that the $20 dinner was-free, To plenas photographers he that more food and drinks, also picked her up as if carrying her free, were coming up, and that over the threshold, then took
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"Do it the British way with a completely non-partisan com- mission headed by judge, pe (wan, advised. ****
are now stationary."
POISED
ful for his foresight when, time to time, minuta - organisms ·
scope.
11.45 am 5,740 test
bentho
11.65m 8,500 feet. The steady clicking of the echo- sounder is the only noise inside the sphere. We are just over 300 feet from the bottom.
12.08 p.sh. 80 feet from the Houot; is watching the
radio telephone:
The switches controlling the
10.34 am. 1,150 feet, More bottom. "Bathyscaphe to Samson, are electro-magdels are protected I luminous specks outside. The echb-sounder: carefully. we submerging?”-
by a sheet of plexigiam, Willm, water certainly looks quite "Can you see anything?" "The water is up to the con- who thought this one up, was darkc enough already. From Houot asked me. ¿ ning tower,
The beam of the headlights you have gone down a bit bumped into the control panel against the
one of the early dives, he explode in a shower of sparka picked out in widte disa below
buoyancy
tank the sphere, Houst thrust his more.
His posterior. If the
face against the to him,
porthole The den appealed to
"Now you have risen slightly " plexiglass hadn't been there four above. us,
10:38 but finely he elected
Hount frowned and then sald tons of metal ballast would
bottom 1047 8:27,050 | Leet -: Instead, he will appoint a top-
2,300 feet. The 12.08. The guide rope, to me:
plummeled lovek co-ordinator from the
to the bottom archlight illuminates a desise metal cable about 30 feet long, PIE la caused by muction. We To cumface the bathyscape cloud, of plankton remember
the hoftonter The Justice Department so tackle the
have
the
-downward plunge knota:
her bean slowed by
1) RIGHT indeed are the pros-5 pecte for young" engineers (mim and women) mariing their careers in 1985900
panies shown they have 19 cent more fobs to offer and
will be
and
pa trouble in mabe" you: Just, push on this button; tle : exprosion, used, by Rodolf bad, the skim the repeated:
wettled
Tibathyscapho deems in the wate
fathyscapes to Bataon.. frogmats to keep clear, going to Settlion: tome gasolina
The 17,180 gallons of Conta und Fla, the banys
It shư dons not respond, you Just like sque, f
push
on this one and then all with the searchlight switched dropping of ballart. Now Bghts
he ballast will drop at one go.” off, it was like dowlinghimosis, ened of the
he Which of the guide. STS Tiantly wondered what, I their stars. Thousandakoff pine tops me craft emaps poised
Would do
The posan
not points of little wione to the few. stuff the aptece should all with these
above
the contact which ourzfeld of vision are: 1033 left under
sphere: