Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time in British railway history a royal train, carrying King George & Queen Mary and King Christian & Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, reached London behind schedule, stalled 18 minutes by the force of the storm. On his arrival in Britain last fortnight, long King Christian, whose life is a succession of minor mishaps (TIME, March 18, 1928), was stranded for hours on a mudbank. Last week, like Ajax defying the lightning, he re-embarked for home in the height of the hurricane...
...Fortnight ago Abitibi Power & Paper Co. and St. Maurice Valley Paper Co., forming a very consequential portion of their industry, definitely announced a price raise, effective Jan. 1, from $55 to $60. The next U. S. move was a meeting of the representatives of more than 300 U. S. and Canadian newspapers called early last week in Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania. Three basic suggestions emerged. The most direct was that legal action be used against the Canadian pulpsters...
Closely does Sears, Roebuck's decision follow upon the publication last fortnight of the results of balloting conducted by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Although 1,580 voters had favored a new calendar as against 1,197 opponents, a two-thirds majority is necessary before the Chamber of Commerce can endorse a movement...
Observers waited all last week to see what answer U. S. Protestants might make to a Vatican pronouncement of last fortnight credited to the Pope in person. Said the Pope: "Protestantism is getting more and more exhausted. . . . Behold Catholicism, which shines in the clear light, while Protestantism goes from denial to denial, rendering ever more intense in many souls that follow the invitation of truth a homesickness for returning to Catholicism...
...Last fortnight the Great Man of Argentina, fiery Dictator-President Hipolito Irigoyen, who is almost fanatically secretive about matters of state, frankly admitted that he has it too. He called in surgeons who decided to operate at once...