Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flappers & Socialists. The newspaper of world's largest circulation, London's Daily Mail, and other organs of the Rothermere Press flatly predicted, last week, that Britain's newly enfranchised ''flappers" (women from 21 to 30) will prevent the return of the Conservatives with their present independent majority. Pontificating in the Daily Mail, Lord Rothermere declared: "The only sure way of keeping out the Socialists (Laborites) is in the union of the two anti-Socialist parties under David Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin, and this combination of Liberals and Conservatives would have our heartiest support...
...partially completed state she was insured by her builders, Blohm & Voss, for $9,500,000 in the event of total loss. What they can now collect is a matter of "adjustment." They paid $3 per $500 coverage for an expected building period of 21 months. In London -world centre of maritime insurance- the disaster was declared "absolutely without precedent," since no such mighty leviathan has ever burned in course of construction. Result: the prevailing London rate of 8% for a "constructive total loss" was jumped to 15%. Most of the Europa insurance was placed in Hamburg, thus adding more murk...
...recently allowed 10,000 rifles and 10 million rounds of ammunition to be sold to Mexico (TIME, March 18), the request of President Chiang was perhaps not illogical. He, like President Emilio Portes Gil of Mexico, is engaged in putting down a revolution, and why should not Washington and London help? In so far as the U. S. State Department made any reply, it was intimated to correspondents that unless U. S. lives or property should be endangered by the newest Chinese civil war, the Hoover policy would be laisser faire...
Identical twins, born of the same egg,* are seldom reared separately. Hence Horatio Hackett Newman, professor of zoology & embryology at the University of Chicago, rejoiced last week because he had such a pair under observation: two 19-year-old girls called discreetly A and O. They were born in London, lost their parents at 18 months. A's foster parents raised her in stodgy London, O's in a small Ontario town. Both received similar education. Recently A joined O. Theoretically and according to previous observations identical twins should be mirror images of each other (TIME, April...
...absolute Government monopoly is the "B.B.C." (British Broadcasting Corporation), so absolute, in fact, that it haughtily refused to announce the names of "popular pieces" played by London orchestras, on the ground that unscrupulous conductors have sometimes taken money to push new compositions...