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...Cannes on the palmy Riviera last week duty called Edward of Wales to inspect the British destroyer H. M. S. Wishart, commanded by his cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten. Some years ago Alfonso XIII, then King of Spain, thought the Prince was deliberately insulting him when H. R. H. turned up at a review of the Spanish fleet in civilian grey flannels and a floppy soft hat (TIME, May 16, 1927). Last week loyal British residents of Cannes and officers of the Wishart understood that nothing was amiss when Royal Edward arrived for the inspection wearing rope-soled sandals, grey linen...
...Hughes had driven this big racer over the Santa Ana course. The first day he broke the landplane record with ease, lost the credit for it because of a technicality. The second day, he fulfilled all the requirements, had nearly finished when the mishap occurred. As he bent to inspect the damage, exuberant timers announced he had averaged 352.4 m.p.h.. needed only official confirmation to be declared record-holder.-* Still disgruntled, Pilot Hughes snapped: "It'll go faster...
...inhospitable, and he was nearly at the end of his resources when he managed to get an option on the $250,000 Shannon Mine, in Clifton, Ariz, for $500 cash. He borrowed a last $5,000 to hire a private car and take a party of brokers to inspect the property. Thereafter wealth flowed in, much of it in speculation whose intricacies Author Hagedorn describes in understandable, unsensational terms...
Early in the 1920's he got the ear of Harry Payne Whitney through his playboy son, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, who knew something about mining as well as water travel (see cut), canoed through Manitoba lakes and rivers to inspect the claims in person. Upshot was organization of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting in 1927 with the Flin Flon claims and $17,500,000 in cash. Jack Hammell and his hungry prospectors had already been paid off on substantially their own terms...
Otis & Co. marched into an Akron court and, by virtue of owning ten shares of Goodrich stock, got permission to inspect the books of Mr. Tew's company. Then it began rounding up proxies to try to prevent approval of the new first mortgage at a special stockholders' meeting...