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...London last week the stockholders of Imperial Airways, Ltd. were informed by the Chairman of their board that they had lost ?20,414 ($99,200) last year in transporting passengers by air. "We lost fifteen thousand pounds in 1924!" cried an irate stockholder. "Where will this end, Sir Eric...
...Eric Campbell Geddes, chairman of Imperial Airways, chairman of the potent Dunlop Rubber Co. (TIME, March 1), onetime (1917-18) First Lord of the Admiralty, and onetime (1919-21) Minister of Transport, was not unprepared to soothe his stockholders with words of cheer...
...Company suffered," said Sir Eric, "from a lack of sufficient planes to cope with the peak load of traffic during the summer. . . . Our loss was in great measure due to the writing off of obsolete equipment. . . . The real test of the soundness of this company's policy will be shown by the report for our third year...
Before Secretary General Sir Eric Drummond of the League could telegraph the news to Berlin, thousands of German radio fans had already heard the momentous words of M. Nintchitch as they were broadcast. Forthwith the German delegation headed by Foreign Minister Stresemann and Count von Bernstorff left Berlin for Geneva in three special cars attached to three separate trains. Thus the extravagance of a special train and engine was prudently avoided...
...turn out the light. . . ." Suddenly collecting herself, one of the girls snapped the switch, "I'll go." A black shape glided out the window; the two girls lay whispering for hours. In the morning, a house detective found a velvet mask, a revolver, in the trunk of one Eric Nelson, British, in the cubicle overhead. Disorderly Mr. Nelson was arrested...