Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North German Lloyd liner Europe. hove-to with engines idling 600 mi. off -Cape Breton one morning last week. Passengers lined the rail, crowded about a roped enclosure on the sundeck to watch a sturdy monoplane mounted on a sort of sled and turntable between the two smokestacks. Pilot Joachim Blankenburg waved a signal from the cockpit, a seaman on deck threw a lever and the sled shot to the edge of the deck, flinging the seaplane out over the water at 80 m. p. h. The plane rose rapidly, circled the Euro pa in salute, vanished into the west...
...fuelled again, taxied up to the Europa's Brooklyn pier early in the morning, nearly 28 hr. ahead of the liner. It was the first time that transatlantic mail had beaten its steamer into port by a full day. Ordinarily the margin is about 18 hr. North German Lloyd officials declared the long distance experiment would be repeated whenever weather permits. On eastward voyages the plane leaves the steamer 300 or 400 mi. out of Southampton, flies ahead to Southampton. Rotterdam, Cologne. Flights are attempted only between late April and October and then only when weather is good (about...
Privy SeaL The only vacancy in the Cabinet proper, the post of Lord Privy Seal, which some observers had believed was being saved for David Lloyd George, was awarded last week to the Conservative Earl Peel. Ramsay MacDonald's son Malcolm was made Under Secretary for the Dominions and Colonies. David Lloyd George's son, Gwilym, was made Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade...
Embezzler Wolf was not under arrest last week. He was living in a hotel under guard by Lloyd's detectives pending the insurance company's efforts to recover some of the securities from Wolf's brokers. "I'll be able to help quite a bit in checking everything up," he said...
Canny Continental Illinois was insured against such losses for $2,000,000 by Lloyd's of London. When the English insurers heard of the theft they said, "Millions of pounds have been paid in the past to U.S. banks but the Chicago claim is the largest of its kind...