Word: europeanizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trans-Hemisphere Transport. For two years European nations have been sending flyers to scout airways across Africa, across Asia. Last week England utilized its amassed information. Its Imperial Airways started weekly commercial service from Croydon Airport, near London, to Karachi, India, by way of Alexandria, Egypt. First passenger was Sir Samuel Hoare, British Air Minister, one of the few bureaucrats who actually fly.* He quit the India journey at Alexandria, to inspect the Egyptian section of the proposed Alexandria-Cape Town British trunk airway...
...Clarence Marshall Young, director of aeronautics, U. S. Department of Commerce, returned from Europe last week where he has been flying his own plane while inspecting European air services. France's late Minister of Commerce and Aeronautics, Maurice Bokanowski, was killed last year while flying...
...Largest European corporation is I. G. Farbenindustrie A. G. (TIME, April 1), largest European earner as well with its $25,000,000 (1927) net income. Yet, though 25 million is no puny amount in any man's hemisphere, U. S. corporations would hardly stand awed at its magnitude. Of some 500 U. S. companies thus far reporting 1928 earnings, 28 exceeded the I. G. F. A. G. figure. Nine passed the $50,000,000 mark. Of these nine U. S. Steel and American Tel. & Tel. exceeded $100,000,000, and General Motors established its own class with the astonishing earnings...
Erma is the European Rail Makers' Association, a cartel which includes British, French, German, Belgian and Central European rail manufacturers. It was last week reported that U. S. railmakers were on the point of formally entering the cartel. Thus the cartel would no longer be European but International, thus Erma would evolve into Irma...
Frances ("Peaches") Browning, nee Heenan, juvenile half of a disgusting age-and-youth sex case, last week finished a lucrative vaudeville tour and prepared for an all-summer European holiday. Her companion: Mother Heenan...