Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bottle of fine brandy was rejected as too heavy. Officials clapped them on the backs; fraus kissed them goodbye. They climbed into the planes. With them climbed Hubert R. Knickerbocker, U. S. newspaperman representing the Hearst newspapers; also Baron Gunther von Huehnefeld, publicity man for the North German Lloyd steamship line. Both passengers were ignorant of airplanes. They took no mascots. Said Captain Koehl: "Gasoline, plenty of it, is your best talisman...
...crowd cheered for the eleventh Channel swim in history and the first attempt this season. In London, the feat was signalized at Lloyd's (insurance exchange) by a clanging of the Lutine Bell and the loud voice of a public crier. Headlines ejaculated decorously all over Britain. The U. S. Press took the news more calmly. Only 364 days before, the Ederle performance had called forth some of the biggest typefaces in the composing room, for front page screamers. Now no room at all could be found for Mr. Temme on the front pages of leading U. S. newspapers...
...David Lloyd George is the most despicable man in the world...
...murderess, the Countess was sentenced to life imprisonment. One year later she was released, and in the succeeding year (1918) she was elected a member of the British Parliament. At that time she launched and tirelessly repeated her maxim concerning Mr. Lloyd George (see above), whom she blamed for his opposition to the project of creating Ireland a Republic...
...Lloyd's Register of Shipping, published in London last week, showed that of the 2,840,545 tons of ships abuilding throughout the world on June 30, 1,459,595 tons were to be run by internal-combustion engines, 1,366,809 by steam engines. This was the first time ever that motorized tonnage had superseded steam.* Tonnage of ships under construction in various countries on June 30, 1927, and June 30, 1926, were...