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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Absolutely everything on the French side is ready! This time our British friends seem clearly to favor realization of the project. Only one thing remains : that is, for the British government to create as rapidly as possible an association for the construction and exploitation of the tunnel from that end...
...allowed to do all the "Banco"-shouting. Last year however an apparently rich Cal ifornian who said his name was "Mr. Day" wanted to play bank and was graciously allowed to oust the Syndicate. On the first coup they wagered a half-million francs against Banker Day at one end of the table and a million at the other. As he dealt the cards they stood to lose $60,000; but he lost instead, at both ends of the table. Thereafter the Syndicate banked for some time alone...
...Anson Wood Burchard of General Electric Co.; to Prince Henry XXXIII of Reuss, widower of Princess Victoria Margarette of Hohenzollern. Until 1918, the House of Reuss ruled over two principalities on the Polish frontier of Germany. For many centuries all Reuss princes have been named Henry. At the end of every 100 years, the numbering begins at I again...
...Steur, lawyer for Mrs. Wyckoff, said: "This marks the end of all litigations between Mr. and Mrs. Wyckoff...
Cabin Boats. Characteristic examples of the standard cabin cruisers, built for cruises of weeks and months as well as for week-end excursions are boats made by Elco* and by A. C. F. (American Car & Foundry). Elco (boatbuilder for 36 years at Bayonne, N. J.) has a new sport model which combines cabin accommodations for four with a speed of 20 m. p. h. The Elco Fifty (a twin-screw 50-footer) and the A. C. F. Fifty-Four and Sixty-Eight are instances of the motor boat which has virtually graduated into the motor-yacht class...