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...upped anchor in Portsmouth harbor last week and steamed out to sea at ebb tide. Just at the harbor mouth the 33,500-ton island of grey steel nosed into a bank of soft mud and stuck. On board was the new com mander of Britain's Home Fleet, Vice-Admiral Sir William Henry Dudley ("Ginger") Boyle, K. C. B. Along the deck went he to the control tower, to confer with the Commanding Officer Captain Patrick Macnamara, well known in Washington last year as British naval attaché. "This is your ship. Captain," said the Admiral. "Might...
...company. Not only the Munson office building at No. 67 Wall St. and the Munson hotels (Royal Victoria and Colonial) at Nassau but also the famed S. S. American Legion, Western World, Southern Cross, Pan America and 25 other lesser vessels like the Munargo, Mundolphin, Munmystic, Mundixie, a fleet of 147,000 tons, are to pass to I. M. M. on terms yet unannounced...
When plump young Ronald Tucker Finney, prize bond broker of Emporia, Kans., was spending money few men in Kansas outdid him. He owned two Arabian thoroughbreds, a Bellanca monoplane, a fleet of automobiles, a Wild West show (101 Ranch), a floodlighted tennis court. When he was arrested for forging nearly $1,000,000 worth of municipal bonds (TIME, Aug. 21) he precipitated a scandal such as few Kansans have ever begotten. But when his father, Warren Wesley Finney, bank president and pillar of Emporia society, was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to from 36 to 600 years in jail (TIME...
...other six planes are to be Lockheed Electros, another new twin-engined low-wing monoplane which is also supposed to do 200 m.p.h. The newer fleet will be used to retire obsolete 120 m.p.h. tri-motors on Pan American's routes through Mexico, Central and South America...
...leaving Oxford he went to Manhattan, worked in Wall Street for several months during the summer of 1929. He disliked it, went to Guatemala as a railway in spector, then back to London to work for a Cabinet committee, "writing monumental treatises on the tsetse fly and the trawler fleet." He joined the staff of the London Spectator, became literary editor, eight months later went to China. Five months after he got back he was off again to Brazil. After finishing Brazilian Adventure he went to Manchuria as correspondent for the London Times, returned to London to find the town...