Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also ordered Mr. Dewey, on the motion of Defense Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker, to back up his indictment with names of all the political figures whom the State charged Hines with "influencing" on behalf of the numbers racket. Obediently Tom Dewey last week produced three names: Tammany Magistrate Hulon Capshaw, the late Tammany-appointed...
When the Lutine bell, hung at the entrance to Lloyd's underwriting room in Leadenhall Street, London, rings once, it signifies bad news for ship brokers...
...Navy, which sailed Oct. 9, 1799, from Yarmouth Roads, laden with gold ingots worth $10,000,000. Some of the gold was to pay off the English army fighting the French in Holland; the rest was to soothe a banking panic in Hamburg. Half her cargo was insured with Lloyd's. In the North Sea a storm hit her. With bare poles she ran before the wind, struck on the island of Terschelling at the mouth of the Zuider Zee, and sank in 50 feet of water...
...years since, five salvage expeditions, French, German, Dutch, English, have recovered no more than $200,000, a few cannon balls, a spoon, some brass nails and the ship's bell which now hangs in Lloyd's. Meanwhile, the Lutine settled down 70 feet through loose sand till she rested on the clay bottom. Last spring, Lloyd's licensed Billiton Point Mining...
...Stanford White, all this would have been no particular commendation of Albert Kahn as an architect. But young architects today have heard and understood Le Corbusier's definition of a house as a "machine for living," Frank Lloyd Wright's statement that in ideal architecture "form and function are one." Lately, to his great surprise, indefatigable Albert Kahn has discovered that the industrial buildings he has been designing all these years are "modern architecture." To show how essentially modern they are, in logic, economy, and use of steel and glass, THE ARCHITECTURAL FORUM this week devotes its August...