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Fifty-year-old Sir Eric Geddes* returned to the U. S. last week. He came as a businessman, chairman of the Dunlop Tire & Rubber Co.,† to inspect their plants in Buffalo. Pressmen, scenting soapstone, pressed him for a statement on rubber. They got it in quick, definite sentences that comported strangely with his southern U. S. accent, which he had picked up as a youth working in southern lumber regions and on the B. & O. He said...
Last week preliminary plans were announced for a colossal new fane to rise on Riverside Drive at the corner of W. 122nd St. A fortnight ago the preacher was in Europe with his family. He left them there to inspect those plans in Manhattan (TIME, Feb. 15). He approved the plans; hurried back to Europe last week...
...Passed a bill creating an Assistant Secretary of Commerce in charge of commercial aviation, and authorizing the Department of Commerce to treat air navigation much as water navigation, i. e., license pilots, inspect airplanes, supply weather reports, erect beacons on air routes, etc. (Bill went to the House...
...comes to all men, the desire to inspect brass knuckles, handcuffs, and rusty instruments of torture came to Edward of Wales last week. He visited the famed "Black Museum" at Scotland Yard. There officials are reported to have "thrilled" him by displaying gruesome exhibits which have figured in various well known trials for every crime from murder to "crippling a baby with a toothpick...
...stopped," says he, "in towns of all sizes, and I found it necessary to invite the mayor, the sheriff, the chief of police or the constable of the town to inspect the exhibition, to prove to them that the pictures really moved...