Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because not even the Baldwin Cabinet's best friends could believe that healthy Queen Elizabeth would not be able to come smiling through a dozen Coronations and Durbars if required, correspondents were obliged to question the India Office closely. What about Sir Alexander Hardinge, the King's Private Secretary, only recently dispatched to India to perfect arrangements for the Durbar? What about the King's own uncertain health? What about Mahatma Gandhi's teeming Indian National Congress, its denunciation of the new Constitution now being given by Britain to her Indian Empire (TIME...
...Owner of most of these non-objects, Solomon Guggenheim, celebrated his 76th birthday last week. Fourth of the seven sons of old Meyer Guggenheim, Colorado mining tycoon, he was one of the most active members in developing the Guggenheim copper empire. He is still a director in half-a-dozen mining companies besides holding a partnership in Guggenheim Bros. He has served as board chairman of American Smelting & Refining Co. Many years ago he began to collect pictures, built up a valuable collection of such objective paintings as Dutch old masters, German and Italian primitives...
...half dozen schemes that have flown unfledged from the Council nest, all offer difficulties in the way of operation. The best possible solution would be to elect eight seniors to the big board, one from each House, all of whom would be members of their respective House committees. These men could be House chairmen or not, as the plebiscite and their individual wishes determined, but care should be taken not to overburden them with excessive routine duties in House organization, lest their efficiency and enthusiasm on the Council be impaired. Three more seniors would then be appointed at large...
...second objective-getting retail prices down so that greater egg consumption would reduce the surplus-pre-sided the angel of publicity. Spotting government concern over eggs, the vigilant New York World-Telegram announced with three-column headlines that chain grocers whose eggs cost them 34? a dozen were selling them for 45?, making three times as much profit as they made in 1935. "There is no known method," said the World-Telegram blandly, "of forcing the chains to reduce their retail price ... so that consumers can use and farmers sell more eggs." Four days later almost every large chain...
...since East Texas six years ago. What was more, the well was plunk in the centre of a 6,000-acre lease owned by Barnsdall alone. The new well is seven miles from Newhall in Los Angeles County, six miles from the spot where a dozen people were killed in last December's crash of a San Francisco-to-Los Angeles United Air Liner (TIME...