Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Empire Premiers in England for the Imperial Conference (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.) journeyed to Cardington, Bedfordshire, last week and were shown the giant air liners R-100 and R-101 now building under a shroud of mystery for the London-Cairo-Bombay air service scheduled to open next year (TIME...
...national loss resulting from the British Coal Strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) was estimated last week to equal ?40 ($200) for every family in the British Isles. None the less the 750,000 miners who were still on strike last week, refused by a 100,000 majority to accept the settlement negotiated by their Executive Committee with Premier Baldwin (TiME, Nov. 15), after their delegates' congress had empowered the committee to make peace "on the best terms to be had." When the miners thus sensationally repudiated last week both their delegates' congress and executive committee, the committee...
Apropos of the Imperial Conference (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.) which continued its sessions in camera last week, Premier Baldwin said...
...national delegates' conference of the British Coal Miners' Federation virtually acknowledged last week that the six-months-old coal strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) is a total fizzle, by empowering the Miners' Executive Committee to make peace entirely upon its own responsibility on the best terms...
...direct operator, needed a plant at Pittsburgh. The Judge was further irritated by President Schwab's behavior at Monte Carlo. Reports came that the very President of the U. S. Steel Corp., that "good" corporation, was reveling on the Riviera, that he was playing roulette, vingt-et-un, chemin-de-fer and baccarat for stakes of thousands of dollars. Mr. Schwab has never smoked. He has drunk sparingly. He has been a devoted husband. Yet he has always liked a pleasant game of cards. If he did gamble a bit at Monte Carlo, the stakes meant little...