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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1955,

Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The World

Mothers & Children Will Like This Liner

Montreal.

When the Canadian Paci- fc Steamships' new, 26,000- ton liner Empress of Britain makes her maiden voyage to Canada next spring, a lot of compliments will probably go to the men her.

From Chicago: Plan

Railroad

Companies From Vatican City:Who Said Latin

Radical Now Trains For America,

An Archaic Languago?

From London: Sailing To America In From Madrid: Spaniards Robuked For Adopting An Amarican Custom.

A 37-ft Lifeboat.

RADICAL NEW

TRAIN DESIGNS FOR AMERICA

REVOLUTION Of The RAILROADS

who built American

But according to a : pukesmani at the company's headquaters here, much of the ship waa balit with women in mind.

Tho telaine touch ranges from specal tonus in the light g

arrangements to individual

washing machines, and gadgets for heating bables' butties.

were

The spokesman said that when Plans for passenger accommoda- tion

being

completed aboard the liner in a Scots ship- yard, a

of biondes, -election bruneties and redheads

aboard,

They wore cosmetics supplied by the world's leadingg

went

manu-

facturers and toured special test rong and cabins to determine the most astering combinations of light and decor to their complexions.

Not Special Cabins

That don't mean that the Empress of Britain will have spertui enbins for blondes, brunelter, redheads or other hale colours wom think up.

It won't.

Bul experts decided after looking at the made-up models In different light; and against varied colour backgrounds that Le colours used would be go.d word ivory with "deluxe warn white,"

They said make-up applied

In private accommodation under luorescent alting showed up best with tho gold-and-ivory bu-hercund.

For children, the playroom walia will be nursery covered with plastic-based paint, because It's easier to wash after youngsters afloat do the same da do ashore and moppels often mk up the walls.

The playroom wiil have "stardust yellow walls, curtains in colourful prints and bright seat-covers.

Murals will show elephants and other jungle animals and a huge blackhoard will be on one wall complete with a big supply of multi-coloured chalk.

Washing Machines Woinen with young children and clothes and nuppy-washing pr. blems will get A brunk aber the liner which will be man ved mostly by British crew- men. A launderette at the after end of "C" deck wil be equiped with six automatic washing machines and alx cord- Jess, e.ccirie Irons.

Theo Is also п tourist-class playroom which will feature a miniature navigation bridge complete with ship's wheel and engine-room telegraph, a slide house. and a log-cabin dolls There also will be a special stage for puppet shows-United Preas.

are

Chicago. railroads banking on radical new train designs lighter, faster, more comfortable conches and pullmans-to lift

their money-losing passenger services out of their p escnt depression.

Baine

They hope to lure travellers from airlines, bus lines with and private ears innovations in speed and

At luxury.

the time, the new trains would carry more passen- gers ut less operating cost and help wipe out thei $700,000,000 a year de ficit

lavatories

and compartments

and baggage "downstairs."

Or, depending on which rafl. road you take, it may be in a low slung cur where you step down into the seating area as if enter- ing # sunken living

room,

Aerotrain

Some of the new trains are already in service. The more revolutionary ones

are

still in the testing stage and will not carry their first paying passen- | gers until next year or later.

now plaguing the Chicago saw one of the most | railroad companies.

in a year or two your train

ride may be in a high, double-deck couch with scating arca "upstairs"

SIDE CLANCES

gelh

9-13

T. M. Reg. 15, the Pás Off

Cept. 1915 by NBA Dr, In

VALE

The cars are an adaptation of a bus General 10-passenger Mo.ors manufactures for inter- city bus routes. The train car is 18 inches wider than the bus, however, providing wider scals and greater nisio

cars

space. Ten

will be drawn by a specialty-designed single-unit diesel.

the

So Bglit is the aluminium-bodied

.erotrain, according to

makers, it cun haul 400 pus- sengers from Chicago to New York for about $125 worth of fuel at a top speed of 102 mph.

The lightweight "Talto" train

that has been used in Spain for six years will be Intro- duced to Americans in De- cember as the "Jet rocket" on the Chicago-Peoria run of the Ruck Island Railroad, Amerl- cua Car and Foundry Co. modernised. describes JE DS more flexible version of the Spanish Taigo."

unusual

11 miris new

at thei General Motors recent Powerama Exhibition. It is GM's "nerotrian," which the New York Central

pins to put in service

the rs Each car for Ume 011 Its Chiengo-Detroit rug next spring.

a

is made up of three Jointed units which allow the train to bend more readily.

This, centro

along with lower gravity, reduces side away and permits greater speed rounding curves. The “Talgo” car weighs only half as much as a standard coach.

Another train of low centre of gravity is being built by the Budd Co., of Philadelphia for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Like the Tolgo, It employs the tubular principle of con- struction.

Tho

Low-slung

the

Budd train, which Pennsylvania will put into operailon early next year, will consist of seven couches scating 574 passengers, plen a separate car for

lighting. heating and air conditioning units.

The Root of the train in only 22 inches above the ralls, compared with 31 Inches on ordinary trains.

a self-

Build also is building

propelled coach car called the "Hot Rod" for the New Haven Railroad. Each of the six cars in the train is equipped with two 300-horsepower diesel engines. --United Press,

By Galbraith Now They're Wooing

"I don't know how the Russians do it-most folks, when they drink vodka, will say yes to almost anything!"

LATIN CATCHES UP ON

THE GAME OF

FOLLIS

PEDUMQUE LUDUS

Vatican City.

If the ancient Romans had played football, they would have called it follis pedumque ludus,

And a

centreforward would The findings are published in |

Mons, third edition of not have shot a goal, but rather the follin in portam ingerere.

Facel's Lexicon which translates Such are the decisions of one into Latin new words that have of the foremost Latin experts crept into the world's language in the work, Monsignor Antonio ninco Nero played a fiddle and Bagel, recretary of Latin letters Rome burned

EntĪed" of the Holy See,

CONVERSION

THROUGH SURGERY?

Johannesburg.

bulary in Voca-

words

and dimcult to transisto

the new edllion contains 10,000 words, or 3,000 new additions.

In Lat the book is caked "Lexlcom Eorum Vocabulorus Quao Difficillus Latino Rod duntur."

12 Years' Work

Previous editions have been A Johannesburg brain surgeon considered invaluable to Latin performed an operation on a

studento, ecclesiastical (gures man who had served three as well as those diplomats whe prison scalesicos totalling 18 occasionally must express them

yes in the year.

anelent Dolves

tongue. The

leucotomy opamtion-a

Mona Bacd, 10, mala hin performed at the Lexicon representa the bpiter request as a last effort part of 12

labour, in English or Many wo which directe his gelions Italian require more words in unlawful chanbola

ho explained. middle-agod man-t

-WAN

Polla hal portion of his

Variations or meaning

qualined” bccountant-haa beeu | bnd the general subject, take 4'

'and lot of explanation, noted for

"Radar, for example, required who performed two pages," raid Mons. Bucel,

the operation Hold that Would · Football requires three words..

* HIGH" As the result, could: bel Astarted, an China Mail Special.

|| "Foll" was a ball inade Cot unimaal skin and filed with air,” wold Mons, Bacol

Wis

Speed Sled Records 1,280 mph

Los Angeles.

An unmanned rocket sled reached a record land speed. of 1,280 mph in a Navy test on the Mojave Desert but scientists said that record would soon be broken.

Mr W. D. Drinkwater, opern- tiona consultant at the Naval Adnance test, slation at China Lako, Calif., disclosed that the record was set in a routine test.

"Higher speeds are expected in the near future," he told the opening sesion of a three-day high-speed track symposium here.

The previous record for an unmanned sled was 1,100 intes an, hour act on a 10,000-foot track at Edwards Air Force Basc last spring

hit its peak

The navy sled

10 A total rocket

motor With thrust of 50,000 pounds sent it on its way on steel-shod run-

Velocity two seconds after

ners.

The sleds are used in testing neroplane armament, pilot es- cape system and missile com- ponents.

man

Lt. Col. John P. Stapp, re- search surgeon from the Hollo- Air Development centre in New Mexico, also addressed the meeting. Col. Stapp, who rode a sled while it hit a speed of G32

milos per hour last year, sold lcd at

he next will try to ride a 1,000 miles per

hour or more.

on

He said he

would be lashed

the sled with à wind screen

in front of him in the test to effect of extreme study the winds on the human body.- United Press.

News In The Air

PLANES

Wives With Orchids CAUGHT BY

Big

New York. business concerns

United throughout the States are

wooing the wives of their workers with orchids and roses, gold brooches and bracelets -- and the new strategy is paying dividends. Companies re- port a "gratifying" rise in sales and productivity, fewer accidents and even fewer strikes.

"We are aware of the power of a woman," said Mr L. C. FIII, industrial relations director of ne of America's largest manu- facturers of gas stoves.

"They can influence their husbands in many constructive and if the wives are a ways, good influence, the company benefits."

Some Arms

confined have their courtship of the wives to such special goals

union elections and safety pro-

But grammer.

many

more companies are beginning to realise

the value of the little "personal touch" in finding the way to a woman's heart.

Hospital Flowers

When the wife of one big steel corporation employce enters

a hospital, the company senda

a beautiful potted plant or basket of flowers. And when

When a chemical company decided to strengthen its safety programme, it presented clectric wives clocks to all employees' who were able to give the firm's current safety slogan to a tele- phone questioner.

A

A petroleum company gives

party for

workers and families whenever a plant com- pletes 1,000,000 manhours with- out a "lost-time accident."

Sailing To

1

New York In

A Life Boat

London,

'WASH'

NEW

London.

been TEW tests have

carried out into the dangers of one aeroplane following too closely in the wake of another.

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There have been several cases, at Icast one with fatal results. of a smaller neroplane getting tossed about by turbulerice created by another machine ahead.

Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation officials say that the danger does not come from the engines of the leading pir- craft. Disturbance from engines dies away quickly.

The Danger

service in different parts of the

The danger fles in rotating air disturbances trailing behind cach wing and dying out so slowly that severe turbulence may be encountered a mile and a halt behind the aeroplane...

Flight tests have discovered that an aeroplane caught in suen a wash zola a tendency to roll, and in certain conditions rolling cannot be checked.

now in airline

about world have now flown

hours and any adding hours every weeks. €3,000 Orders for Britain's-best selling world's first with airliner-the propoiler-jot engines-now, total 234, and Vickers estimate that by 1958 Viscounts will be flying

about 1,200 hours every day.

Beventy-one Viscounts have

Bearded French-Canadian one of the corporation's workers Daniel Martell, 35, who

Viscounts years works for an American is honoured for 25 service, the company remembers his wife with a a gold brooch. It bridge building firm, has her husband wins

major decided it is time he report suggestion award," the wife is ed back to the company's presented with an orchid.

So this office in Pittsburg. A big

fabrics Arm sends a month he leaves Kingston, dozen red roses to the wives

20 leading Surrey, for New York in a salesmen each year.

37ft. lifeboat. And personal

of the

concern's

notes go to

the brides of members of their "I know it's the wrong time of sales staff, as well as to the the year for an Atlantic crossing wives of all new salesmen, and we expect to meet 100 mpa

A company chief sold: "It winds but I've got to be in wife is unhappy because her America by February," he said.

so far been delivered.

husband is away from home four With him goel a. 36-year-old A FORK IS

nights a week, we explain the "Naturally," he added, "there reasons for His absence: Other-Scot, Mr Robert Ross, who has on with the arm. Just signed bladder, wise she may inducnco him to Their craft is a former Royal no rubber pedumque means foot." And leave the job,

Institution ludus to play."

costs us about £1,000 to National Lifeboat Aeroplane came rather easily train a salesman and we do not boat which has saved many lives. and in one word: "Velivolum." want to spend this money only The two men are using the -United Press.

to see it wasted."

original enging and oro also taking soils.

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Transparent Woman Has Her Voice Changed

Boston. A transparent woman who arrived here..., from Ger- day! the other many already has lost her Ger- pian accent.

But it took a lot of work.! This nameless glass idea was Imported by the Massg- Chusetts Heart Marociation. With her internal organt illuminated, she will be a talkify cohibitor tha Borton Museum of Scienct; tôi chơi vớitor) heo. The human body functions, a

An aluminium skeleton with the "akin," plexiglass transparent" DOMOT 5 fect 7 inches tall and weighs 08 pounds. On her arrival she spoke

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But fair winds are unlikely In winter and we shall take about 1,000 gallons of fuel in case we have to motor all the way," said Mr Ross.

Little Space

The fuel, food and water will take up most of the space below decks, leaving Bille living room, "Someone will have to hoʻon deck all the Ume so we shan't need much cabin' space,' Martell

The tobont, your at Birken: herd, will be brough, to King

A FORK!

Not A Shovel

Madrid.

The introduction into Europe of the American custom "of eating" with the fork" in the right hand after first cutting the meat, was deplored by the newspaper "ABC"

thousand year we had evolved a way of bullha "with" "the" KNIGH and fork, which was simple and

suddenly the Europena

English with a German stor soon so that 'tha" two men, Heady,

accent thith auch pro nunciatona da "muskele for muscles and "pent" 19r plat

So Mrazabeth Kilham of Framingham; a radio-TV parkinality, was endtigod to re-record the script in gönd Engilah Unitrai

els cantomteph. calah, but those

weaker, have

fortunate? impressionablo logoimijating the tablo The crossing will talo about manners of tile athlelle young

only 5. per

who are in lodglñes at Burblion Road, Kingston, can modify for the voyage.

Low.

two months. From New York man tronk the wet,

the aron will traysi to the ofice

we

appeal to our fellows of

oferably Ha Bouth America or have

thousan

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