Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard with startled approbation from Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare that time tables and rates are already in existence for the London-Egypt-India air service which will be inaugurated on or about Dec. 27. Sir Samuel repeated (TIME, Oct. 4) that he and Lady Hoare will fly in the first plane regularly operated on the new route. Rates: London to Cairo, $250; to Bagdad, $500; to Bombay, $600. Concluding, Sir Samuel said: "Two airships are being built for empire flights which will accommodate 100 passengers each and have promenade decks, outside cabins and big smoking and dining rooms. They...
Guglielmo Marconi, radio engineer: "Last week I attended the British Institution of Civil Engineers in London; saw Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the marine turbine, receive the famed Kelvin Gold Medal. I addressed the assemblage, saying in part: 'I hope you will not think me too visionary if I say that it may be possible that some day electric waves may be used for the transmission of power over moderate distances, if we succeed in perfecting devices for projecting the waves in parallel beams in such a manner as to minimize dispersion of the energy into space...
Engaged. Henry Bradley Martin, son of U. S. Capitalist Bradley Martin, and grandson of the late Henry Phipps (steel); to Valerie French, granddaughter of the late Field Marshal French, Earl of Ypres; at London...
Fortune Ryan (street . railways, mining); to Edward Thomas Baring, of Baring Bros., London bankers; at Doughoregan Manor...
Denied Divorce. Christian Arthur Wellesley, fourth Earl of Cowley, actor, descendant of Richard Colley Marquess Wellesley (famed Governor General of India, 1797-1805; Duke of Wellington's brother); from the Countess, onetime May Picard, Manhattan chorus girl; at London...