Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First person to take out a special air policy was Horatio Barber. In 1912 he went to Lloyd's in London to insure himself against liability to passengers who might travel in a fleet of five planes which he owned. Lloyd's knew nothing of the risks, told him to write out his own policy, being just to them and himself. That led to an affiliation with Lloyd's which, after the War, distracted him from flying. Now, 54, he is in Manhattan, president of Barber & Baldwin, Inc., underwriting affiliates with Aero Underwriters Corp...
...General Director of the North German Lloyd is a very tiny Prussian (he stands scarce four feet ten) yet full proportioned, hard, compact. A dynamo of vital energy, he has built up for the North German Lloyd a whole new post-Versailles fleet of 700,000 tons. A stickler for short cuts, he insists on being called only "STIMMING." Even the German Who's Who does not seem to know that the great little Prussian's parents used to refer to him as "Karl." Last week as he stood in the enormous shadow of the Bremen, the General...
...alles!" sang the Bremerhaven throngs as the Bremen steamed away, and many a patriot recalled the grave yet stirring words of President Paul von Hindenburg when he launched the great ship last year. "It is our wish to give this newest and largest vessel of Germany's revived fleet to its elements. I hail the Bremen ... as a manifestation of the indestructible German capacity for work...
...shiny new bombing planes, just purchased from Berlin, landed on the flying field. Wasting no time, he despatched the bombers to blow up the sheep and the goats, the oxen and asses of the rebellious Arabs in an effort to cut off their chief food source. He inspected a fleet of armored cars for hill-fighting...
...Hoover campaign fund (Postmaster General Brown is a fellow townsman) and he was "responsible" for an additional $125,000. He has been "mentioned" for Ambassador to France, Japan, Turkey. After the War, when King Albert of Belgium visited Toledo as guest of Brand Whitlock, a fleet of Willys-Knights received the royal party. When a newsman in an Oldsmobile attempted to tag along with the procession, a policeman forced him to the curb. Ever since 1900 when, as Fierce-Arrow sales-agent he wore out his first Fierce-Arrow demonstrating it, he has been "good copy" in automotive news...