Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...race, whoever wins, will add two names to the annals of Air and of Empire. But both are already known to fame. Last year they sat side by side above London, the nose of their plane tilted up till it set a new altitude-record for Moths. Lithe Lady Sophie is admittedly the hardier-first woman to loop the loop in England. In a cruel speed-race she zoomed to the finish line a few yards ahead of Lady Mary, who had been leading. But it was the International League of Aviators which threw the apple of discord into...
...fortnight by Mary du Cauroy, 62, Duchess of Bedford. Recently she purchased a small, conveniently maneuverable "Moth" airplane, and transformed into a landing field the lawn in front of her home, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. The chauffeur is the final touch. He now pilots Her Grace back and forth to London, where she is busily engaged in performing electro-physical researches...
...British finance in spite of the fact that the U. S. is now the greatest store and supply house for borax in the world. The American Potash and Chemical Corporation, present producers of borax from brine, are a subsidiary of the New Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa in London; the Pacific Coast Borax Co., present producers of borax from kernite, are a subsidiary of the Borax Consolidated of London...
...Duchesse de Vendome et d'Alençon, nephew of King Albert of Belgium and cousin of Edward, Prince of Wales; to Miss Marguerite ("Peggy") Watson of Washington, D. C., sometime fiancée of Angier B. Duke and the late Reginald Vanderbilt; in London...
...London the Right Hon. Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, Bart., P. C., M. P., chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. and director of many another industrial concern, last week received the British gentlemen of the press. In Manhattan a few hours later Albert Henry Wiggin, chairman of the Chase National Bank and of the Chase Securities Corp. and director of many a banking, railroad, public utility and industrial concern received U. S. reporters. Both men had the same announcement to deliver-the creation of the Finance Company of Great Britain & America Ltd. with ?2,040,000 (about $10,000,000) capital...