"Pirie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dropped to 58,568 tons, and in February was only 100,038 tons. In March it was announced that Lord Pirie would take the position of Controller General of Merchant Shipbuilding. The subsequent results in the direction of output of merchant ships do not properly come within the scope of this book, which is intended to deal only with work during the year 1917, but it may be of interest ...
— The Crisis of the Naval War • John Rushworth Jellicoe |
