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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London how much Great Britain is prepared to offer for his friendship. Last week it was Russia's turn to cap the British bid and to dazzle King Amanullah with a display more imposing than the English pageantry and war games in his honor which have just cost the British Exchequer some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Homage to Majesty | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...season (June), parlor, bedroom and bath can cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: East is East | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...which alert Prime Minister Bruce received blame & praise, last week, was to sell for a total of ?1,900,000 seven great ships which cost some ?7,500,000 when they were bought some five years ago by the Commonwealth. The Prime Minister's defense was that the ships have been operated by the Commonwealth at a consistent loss of some ?600,000 per year. In his opinion that loss should be stopped. But the Laborites want Australian jobs on Australian ships for Australians. Therefore in Sydney, last week, labor union leaders threatened ominously to "blacklist and boycott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Seven Ships | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...guests four titled friends, le Comte et la Comtesse de Grunnes & le Comte et la Comtesse de Montalembert. Equally as usual to the Loewensteins was their staff of 15 secretaries and personal servants. Necessarily eight suites and cabins aboard the lie de France had been occupied at a cost of $20,000. From the pier Captain Loewenstein & Party motored to the Hotel Ambassador, where they settled down in the comfortable third floor once occupied by Queen Marie of Rumania (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926, et seq.). Soon fastidious Captain Loewenstein read with pain certain ignorant, flapdoodling headlines. The Times: "LOEWENSTEIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Without Ostentation | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...withdraw before monthly, quarterly or semi-annual interest dates. Therefore President Pulleyn's bank last week began to pay, and claimed it was the first to pay, full interest for every day savings are on deposit. In the cases of some small accounts, the bank's bookkeeping cost will be more than its profits. But in the 77 years of its existence the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank has found that expensively small deposits become profitably large deposits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wall Street Notes | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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