Word: national
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Comtesse de Gabriac, saying that the Paris Herald had also reported me to be a jailbird. Simultaneously came various letters from California kidding me unmercifully about the same story carried by papers out there. The clipping from TIME was the fatal straw, and realizing that TIME will reach as nation-wide a public as all these other papers combined, I rely upon your courtesy to correct this mistake, and relieve Boston from calumny...
Aviation insurance includes, besides personal accident and life risks, risks against planes, cargoes, airports, public liability, passengers, employes, fires, windstorms, thefts. The usual life or accident policy generally forbids flying. Four Manhattan underwriters predominate in the nation's aviation insurance business-Aero Underwriters Corp., United States Aviation Underwriters, Wm. H. McGee & Co., Associated Aviation Underwriters. The last is the most powerful. Formed last March it groups 13 fire and marine insurance companies and three casualty companies, whose aggregate assets were then...
Time was when Germans dreamed of equaling Britain in sea power, but they learned to be less presumptuous at Versailles. Not long ago His Britannic Majesty's government made known that the U. S. is to-day the only nation which they will abide on a parity of naval strength (TIME, July 4, 1927, et seq.). Last week the North German Lloyd was challenging very modestly no more than a passenger speed record, yet even that was bold, and of all who went to watch the Bremen steam away none knew this better than STIMMING...
Prime statistic is the weekly figure on car-loadings, vital index of the nation's business. Fruit from California and Florida, motor cars from Detroit, coal from Pennsylvania, textiles from New England, clothing from New York, cotton from the South, wheat from the West?all commodities move, and move largely by rail. High car-loadings show brisk business, efficient carriers. Pleased was the American Railway Association last week to announce that car-loadings for the first 26 weeks of 1929 made an all-time record for loadings for the first half of any year. Loadings for the week ended June...
Members of Parliament were incensed at the Bishops' action. Laborite Holford George Wilfrid Knight promised to take up the matter at once with Prime Minister MacDonald, to make the Bishops "set an example to the nation of obedience to law and respect for the sanctity of a contract...