Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, in London, keeping its statistical eye on the vanishing chance of Peace, Lloyd's announced that it would cancel the war risk clause now included in all open contracts, giving the ten-day notice required...
...popular barfly named James Smith who had disappeared two weeks before, the undigested arm put Australian sleuths on their mettle. By last week they had reconstructed the "Shark Murder" about as follows: A drug-smuggling gang hired Smith to scuttle a yacht they had insured for $42,500 with Lloyd's. When Scuttler Smith later tried to blackmail the gang with threats of exposing them to Lloyd's, the gang had him dismembered and fed piece by piece to sharks in Sydney Harbor. Smith's tattooed arm was swallowed by a baby shark which failed to digest...
...Cinemarch of TIME No. V. Was the 15 minutes devoted to pictures of U. S. Army defense plans war propaganda or were the editors sincere in wishing to point out the futility and colossal stupidness of such extravagant expenditures by the flash at the end showing "Lloyd's" ?500-to-1 odds against invasion? If the latter, your editors should remember that the movie public is larger and more impressionable than the magazine's public and doubtless missed the point entirely. Change the accompanying music score to Grieg's Ase's Death instead of the typical Stars and Stripes...
...begged, "to assist Missourians in paying the 1% sales tax imposed by their Legislature?" Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. assented. Franklin Roosevelt drew a picture of the coins as he would like them (TIME, Aug. 5). A bill went to the House Committee on Coinage, Weights & Measures, where Representative Lloyd Thurston of Osceola, Iowa made this proposal...
Born in Oakland, Calif. in 1915, son of a laundry wagon driver, Donald Budge began to play tennis at 8, taught by his elder brother Lloyd who sawed off a racket for him to play with, on the dirt courts of a public park. His first tennis costume was a pair of blue overalls and a khaki cowboy hat. Lloyd Budge, who became good enough to be tennis coach at St. Mary's College, beat Brother Donald regularly until 1933. That year the younger Budge, not yet 18, won the California Championship for men. A diffident, stringy, surprisingly agile...