Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, October 11, under AERONAUTICS it is stated that Lieutenant Castro of Chile was the first of all flyers to cross the Andes.-In reality the first man to do this feat was Lieutenant Antonio Locatelli- Aug. 1919, of the Italian Aviation Corps...
...financiers for some time. Wall Street supplied the rumor that it took final form when Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, and Dr. Schacht, President of the German Reichsbank, conferred with Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at Antibes, French Riviera (TIME, Aug. 30). Of these three fiscal tycoons only Dr. Schacht would comment last week: "The manifesto is connected closely with the recent conference of German and British industrialists in England [TIME, Oct. 18] and is the result of international negotiations...
Cotton Textile. The Cotton Textile Institute, created last summer to integrate the merchandising of cotton fabrics (TIME, Aug. 2), needs a president. Onetime (1911-17) Senator Henry Frederick Lippitt of Rhode Island has been temporary president. Last week his directors made him chairman...
Henry Ford: "On my birthday (TIME, Aug. 9) I presented to 'Baron Friedrich von Krupp' a new specially constructed Ford with wire wheels, in order to facilitate his tour of the country. Later the 'Baron' was, as every-one knows, discovered to be a fake (TIME, Sept. 6). He is now in Newcastle County (Del.) workhouse awaiting trial on the charge of passing worthless checks. I have written through a secretary to authorities in Wilmington, Del., inquiring as to just what I can do to get my Ford back. It is now in Denver driven from...
...Manhattan hotelman: "Home last week from France, where I had awaited the arrival of Pilot Rene Fonck and comrades in the ill-fated Sikorsky plane with which they had hoped to win my standing offer of $25,000 for a non-stop flight between New York and Paris (TIME, Aug. 23 et seq.), I revealed that one-legged Pilot Paul Tarascon* and one-eyed Pilot François Coli, Frenchmen, were all but ready to try for my money in a flight from Paris to New York, next fortnight. These two tried to fly over last year but lost their...