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Word: ile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president of Detroit Aircraft Corp., which embraces Lockheed Aircraft Co., Ryan Aircraft Corp., Grosse Ile Airport, Aircraft Development Corp., Parks Air College, Eastman Aircraft Corp., Winton Aviation Engine Co., Blackburn Aeroplane Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...special prize of $2,000 was donated by Albert Carl Lehman, Pittsburgh steel man, for the best purchasable painting. Painter Carena also won this prize, and his picture was bought by Donor Lehman. William J. Glackens, U. S. painter and illustrator, won the second prize ($1,000). His Bathers, Ile Adam, hot in color and thin in texture, is composed in a lively, anecdotal manner. Georges Dufrenoy. French conservative, won third prize ($500) for a richly colored, rather thickly painted still life of brocade, a vase, a fiddle. Paris painters, recalling Carnegie's previous recognition of more salient French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pittsburgh's 28th | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Quite refreshed after his two days in bed, Elihu Root left Geneva with Nurse Emily Stewart by limousine for Paris. They expect to sail for the U.S. on the Ile de France, famed as "The Peace Ship" The original Briand Peace Pact proposal was brought to the U.S. by Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick on the maiden voyage of the Ile de France (TIME, July 4, 1927); and "The Peace Ship" carried Secretary of State and Mrs. Frank Billings Kellogg when he sailed to sign the Briand-Kellogg Pact Renouncing War in Paris (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD COURT: Root Formula | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

While the commission studied at Hardin, last week, Wheatgrower Campbell sailed on the Ile de France, to offer verbally his suggestions to the Soviet government and Dictator Josef Stalin. He will suggest the purchase of $100,000 worth of farm machinery, $50,000,000 worth of trucks. He will urge the immediate construction and repair of Soviet roads. Whatever U. S. wheatgrowers may lose from the recovery of Russia's export position will have been gained by U. S. machinery manufacturers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Biggest Campbell | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Nearer drew the ship to land. But also Death drew nearer. The race was ended when the Ile de France was still a day distant from Manhattan. As the liner docked, young Mrs. Wells said that she would take the malaria wasted body of her husband home to Minneapolis for burial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: One Young Colonizer | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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