Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...erroneously reported last fortnight that Lady Sophie Heath, 30, had arrived in London by train (TIME, May 21). Actually, she did not reach London until last week-and she came alone in her own airplane, completing her solo flight from Cape Town, South Africa, after she had been long delayed by British officials at Cairo, Egypt...
...matter whether Lady Sophie Heath arrived in London by plane, train or horsecar, because her rival, Lady Mary Bailey, 38, had won the race a week before by completing her flight from London to Cape Town...
...diamond mines, at a luncheon in honor of his wife in Cape Town: "I knew she was a brave woman when she married me." Sir James Heath, 76, coal & iron tycoon, amazed mechanics by giving his wife a vigorous & noisy kiss when she landed at Croydon Airdrome in London. Said he: "A braver woman never lived...
Married. Horace E. Dodge, 27, Detroit speedboat manufacturer, heir to a fortune of $37,000,000; to Miss Muriel D. Sisman, 23, daughter of a Detroit contractor; in London...
...sight. The governors of the Exchange ordered that for a time trading, which begins at 10 a. m., shall stop at 2:00 p. m., instead of at 3 :00 p. m. In four hours less shares can be traded than in five; clerks will have less to record. London long has had four-hour trading days. Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago exchanges may also close early, not because they are frustrated by business but because their activity depends on New York...