Word: bobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heard along docks. Last week the incredible was revealed. The Directors of the P. & O. also wish that they had "a quid" (?1=$4.85) for every mile their ships steamed in 1925. Instead, for 16,450,000 miles of steaming, the company can show a profit of only "two bob" (2 shillings=24.5c each) per mile.† As President of the Board of the P. & O., James Lyle Mackay, First Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver, 73, unchallenged maritime seigneur,** deigned to make no statement last week when the P. & O. balance sheet flashed over the cables. For him spoke...
...towns and cities in the U. S., but I've never yet met anyone-with the exception of members of my own family, who can spell the surname backwards and forwards with the same result." Idlers suggested appropriate names for Mr. Planalp's children: Ada, Bob, Lil, Anna, Hannah, Otto. They could call Mr. Planalp "Pop," one jester added. . . . Manhattanites reflected that Mr. Planalp should some day call on James Leffel of 39 Courtland Street, their city; Philadelphians took satisfaction from the 16 double-actioned Reber families listed in their telephone book; San Francisco was complacent with...
...BOB D. HOLADAY...
...farm relief, 54 to 26. Passed minor Co-operative Marketing Bill. (See below). ¶ Ordered the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the handling of the "bread trust" cases by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. Senator La Follette, son of the late Robert M. ("Fighting Bob") La Follette, has taken up this matter as his first national fight. ¶ Passed the last appropriation bill, the second general deficiency, carrying a total of $44,000,000 with the House approving it the same...
Perennial Hearst Columnist Arthur Brisbane touted last week an honor conferred upon himself by the late famed fisticuffer, Robert ("Lanky Bob") Fitzsimmons...