Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When William Kissam Vanderbilt sailed on his yacht Ara, a fortnight ago, on his first cruise around the world, he left behind a yacht-building orgy. More and bigger yachts are now being designed and built for U. S. tycoons than ever before. Herewith, the list with name of tycoon, cost of yacht, architect, builder...
...Next fortnight, himself as guest of honor at the International Conference on Civil Aeronautics, at Washington...
Robbing Russian Markets. Enters at this point the fact that, despite the intensive grain growing of this year, unfavorable weather conditions brought down the national crop to a bare sufficiency for Russia's own grain needs. There were even scareheads in the U. S. press, last fortnight, that the Soviets faced a famine and would have to start buying U. S. grain. To spike this rumor up rose potent Saul G. Bron, Super-Purchasing & SuperSelling Agent of the Soviet State in Manhattan. Mr. Bron is large, untidy, jovial, shrewd and bland. He is a University of Zurich...
Bandages were removed last fortnight from one Bert Ferguson's sick eye on which Dr. Ben Witt Key, Manhattan ophthalmologist, a fortnight ago had grafted another man's cornea (TIME, Nov. 12). The graft was "taking;" Bert Ferguson could see; Dr. Key had succeeded; Charles E. Greenblatt, who had supplied the cornea from his own diseased eye, was content...
...said that some of the great inhabitants have tired of the super-splendor of these evenings and stay sternly at home. But even they could not be entirely unconscious of an opening at Sid Grauman's famed Chinese Theatre last fortnight. Mr. Grauman, conspiring with the Warner Brothers, whose picture he was showing, studded the hills with searchlights. Red, green, and yellow, they scanned the sky by scores. For miles and miles they traced the night with tidings that something stupendous was in progress. That something...