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...pound by exchange offices on the piers. "A pound is still a pound in England!" stormed one Briton in an Old Etonian tie just off the S. S. Homeric (Britain's "Ship of Splendor"). "I shall carry my pounds home with me! A bit high this, something of a holdup, what?" From London the international firm of Thomas Cook & Son circularized the British Isles with a doleful announcement that the fall of the pound had upped travel costs to Britons 20%, advised holidays at British resorts, cruises on British ships where a pound is still a pound. Norman Home...
They said they have blasted down to actual contact with the Egypt's strong room wall. To burst it may be possible before winter storms set in. The splendid shilling (an ordinary English coin dated 1918) is the first "treasure," the first bit of precious metal brought up from the Egypt after more than a year of diving...
...allowed near Friedrich Strasse station but policemen and members of the Reichsbanner, organized into cheering sections. Outside the Hotel Adlon handpicked pedestrians marshalled by detectives lustily cheered Herren Laval & Briand. Statesmen Laval, Brüning, Briand and Curtius formally organized their "Franco-German Economic Committee" (TIME, Sept. 28), a bit of window-dressing ostensibly destined to mitigate tariff barriers, aid in disposing of the products of both countries. MM. Laval & Briand dined with Chancellor Brüning at the German Chancellery, lunched with Dr. Curtius, paid a morning visit to Old Paul von Hindenburg and, before returning to Paris, laid...
...tubs paddled for the plane, snatched at boxes of medical supplies which the two doctors proceeded to unload. "Ah, food!" cried a snatcher. Seizing some boxes of absorbent gauze he ripped one open, tried to eat the white stringy stuff, raged to find it not food. Other Chinese snatched, bit, fell to reviling the two doctors, one a Chinese. Said Colonel Lindbergh afterward: "It was one of the most heartrending, yet terrifying scenes I ever saw." Lest the plane be mobbed, swamped, destroyed, its motor roared. Dodging neatly between sampans, the Colonel put on speed. "As our ship took...
...underplays rich lines (a practice known theatrically as "throwing 'em away"), discloses that he has received offers of help but prefers to let his firm go bankrupt, announces that he is going away because his life, his wife, his children and all young people "bore him a bit." "No, I'm mistaken," he corrects himself. "Infinitely...