Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lower corner of the right lung of His Majesty George V. People all over the world who have ever had to have their pleural cavities drained following pleural pneumonia are vividly conscious that a channel was cut into His Majesty's chest to let the poison drain out. Fortnight ago six royal physicians descried and decided that the royal abscess was not draining properly. They announced that they would have to operate again. To calm a worried public, Court officials quickly declared that the operation would be comparatively minor...
...week was made by President Chiang Kai-shek of China and Foreign Minister C. T. Wang when they sought to use the general treaty for the renunciation of war (Kellogg Pact) (see p. 9) as a shield to cover up the high-handed fashion in which, last fortnight, they booted out of China the entire Russian personnel of the Chinese Eastern Railway (see map). The expulsion was clearly not "an act of war" in the technical military sense (though it was a deadly blow at the Far Eastern commerce of Russia). Consequently, argued the Chinese Foreign Office, last week, China...
Having denied last fortnight the New York Graphic's statement that he had resigned as its editor and publisher so he could "retire and rest" (TIME, July 22), Emile Henry Gauvreau last week told what he was going...
...Florida last fortnight 25 banks failed. Causes: 1) Halterophora capitata; 2) aftermath of punctured land-booms; 3) gossip. Relative importance of these causes was difficult to determine. It appeared, however, that banks heavily laden with uncollectable land-boom notes found their debtors further handicapped by activities of Halterophora capitata. Exaggeration of conditions then produced disastrous bank runs. Deposits in the closed banks totaled more than...
Thus the industry in general. As for individual companies, U. S. Steel Corp.'s earnings were last fortnight estimated at between $92,000,000 and $94,000,000, compared to first half 1928 earnings of $87,866,000 (TIME, July 22). Bethlehem Steel, second biggest, had up to last week made no report. Of other potent steel companies, the following have announced 1929 earnings to date: Republic Iron & Steel Co. This Ohio company, with both William G. Mather, big-Cleveland-iron-man and Cyrus S. Eaton, big-Cleveland-steel-man, on its di rectorate, has made extraordinary progress during...