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...them. They were sewed on the bridal finery of Jewish girls in Poland; they were beaded on the silk and velvet covers of the Blessed Scroll of Laws in synagogues. Cossacks brought pearls to the Polish Jews; carried them from beyond the Caucasians, from Bokhara, and Tiflis and Bagdad; traded them to Jews for prized utensils. But these Americans, sports of war and wealth, knew nothing of pearls . . . only the jangling of diamonds. Jacob Dreicer rented a basement room, sorted his pearls, graded them, matched them into the finest necklaces. He made up a necklace of emeralds and pearls...
...Samaritans. Pilots from the British air bases in Transjordania loaded their planes last week with dates and other comestibles which would not be injured by dropping from a height. Soaring into the zenith they flew up and down the trans-desert motor route between Beirut and Bagdad. Tourists, marooned for almost a week by floods which bogged their motor cars and washed out the railways, gazed thankfully skyward as the British air Samaritans flung man-made manna into their laps. Air Vengeance. At Bombay there was sentenced last week to "five years' rigorous imprisonment" an Arab who would...
...already in existence for the London-Egypt-India air service which will be inaugurated on or about Dec. 27. Sir Samuel repeated (TIME, Oct. 4) that he and Lady Hoare will fly in the first plane regularly operated on the new route. Rates: London to Cairo, $250; to Bagdad, $500; to Bombay, $600. Concluding, Sir Samuel said: "Two airships are being built for empire flights which will accommodate 100 passengers each and have promenade decks, outside cabins and big smoking and dining rooms. They will be able to fly about four thousand miles without refueling. They will be completed within...
...farm relief, or aviation. Last week it was mostly aviation with a dash of farm relief thrown in (see THE PRESIDENCY, p. 5). Herbert Hoover has a brain that works in vast, sweeping programs. He showed Mr. Coolidge a plan for commercial aviation that made the Berlin-Byzantine-Bagdad railroad scheme look like the Toonerville Trolley. Mr. Coolidge approved...
Miss Gertrude Bell died last week. When Death entered her low, rambling, exquisitely luxurious home in Bagdad, Great Britain lost the most remarkable and certainly the most charming woman who has served the Empire in a century. Middleaged, but slender and quick as a girl, she was by title only Oriental secretary to Sir Henry Dobbs, British High Commissioner to Irak. Actually Sir Henry, King Faisal of Irak, and Premier Abdul Mushsin Beg al Ga'dun, deferred consistently to her as the most brilliant and profound feminine apostle of Anglo-Mesopotamian concord who ever lived. The kingdom of Irak...