Word: great
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world growing yearly more democratic, on the threshold of a great naval disarmament conference, new editions of the intransigeant annuals of blue bloods and battleships came last week from their respective publishers: the squat red Almanach de Gotha and long blue Jane's Fighting Ships. In recent years, editing the 167-year-old Almanach de Gotha, "genealogical, diplomatic and statistical annual," has been no mean task. Bound by tradition to list only the members of regal, princely and ducal families, the genteel editors have been obliged by a shortage of European aristocracy to fill their sedate pages with such...
Last week the new Almanach bore as a frontispiece the round olive face of fat King Fuad I of Egypt. Backed by the government of Great Britain, to whose Sovereign he has been sending presents of pink preserved milk (TIME, Dec. 16), Frontispiece Fuad has an excellent chance of retaining his throne at least until the next issue of the Almanach...
Eagerly hockey followers watched to see how the new rules would work out. They found that goals were scored, as had been predicted, in great quantities. One night when five major league games were played in various parts of the U. S. and Canada, 42 goals were scored. Under the old rules there were sometimes less goals scored throughout the league in a night than the number of contests held...
...became chairman of the company, which then operated 190,000 tons of shipping. Today Owen Philipps is Lord Kylsant, "Lord of the Seven Seas," a director of over 40 companies and organizations. With a single-handedness of management that amounts almost to secrecy, he has placed a great K on many orders. Some of these Ks have resulted in such deals as the purchase of the White Star Line (from Morgan interests in 1926), the Elder Demster Line (West Africa), the Union Castle Line (South Africa)*. Other K orders have resulted in fast steamers, improved service, mechanical-innovation. Today...
...British public which recently viewed the New York market break with great and garrulous glee, Royal Mail's tumble was merely another incident in the series of misfortunes which have over taken the English investment market. Although in the U. S. prices broke, earnings of U. S. companies have so far been maintained.But in England poor trade conditions coupled with belief that the Labor government is financially incompetent, seem to indicate the culmination of the long established drift of the London market away from its position as world's leader. "Home Rails," long considered a prime investment, have seen...