Word: packet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inevitable is the cycle which eventually brings depression to even the most prosperous company. In the 19th Century the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. (dating back to 1839 when it was comprised only of swift sailing vessels bearing mail over the South American and West Indies routes) was rich and powerful. But by 1902 it was forced to omit its dividend...
Snowy-haired, perspicacious Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen is chairman of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. which controls the White Star. Not without soundest reasons did he scrap the world's longest ocean liner keel. When the Oceanic was laid down, super-size rather than superspeed was the boast of luxury ships. For 22 years the trans-Atlantic speed record had been held unmolested by Cunard's gallant Mauretania while ship after ship surpassed her in size. Last month, however, Germany's new Bremen beat the old Mauretania (TIME, July 29), set a new trans-Atlantic liner...
...with her whistle tied down and the pilot squirting a steady stream of tobacco juice on the floor of the "Texas" (pilot house), the cotton packet Robert E. Lee chuffed up the 1,154 mi!es of tortuous Mississippi river from New Orleans to St. Louis in 90 hr. 14 min. Behind her, beaten, labored the packet Natchez, burning up "doors, furniture, hundreds of hams and slabs of side meat." The Robert E. Lee's record stood until last week when three exhausted, red-eyed men tottered ashore at St. Louis from the 150 h. p. speed launch Bogie...
Cyril Tolley, British amateur golf champion, contended that an advertisement containing a caricature of him making "a poor stroke before a smiling caddy with a packet of a well-known brand of chocolates protruding from his pocket," was an aspersion on his amateur status. J. S. Fry Sons, Ltd., the chocolate makers, replied that Cabinet ministers (and Charles Spencer Chaplin) had been shown in the same series and had not sued. Golfer Tolley retorted: "Cabinet ministers are professionals." The Court agreed, awarded him $5,000 damages. This verdict encouraged attorneys for Helen Wills, who protested the use of her picture...
...sixpenny book counter, picked out The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. Dell; also four of prolific Edgar Wallace's blood-drenched thrillers: The Flying Fifty-Five, The Missing Million, Room 13 and A King by Night. She bought a thrip'ny rubber sponge and a thripiny packet of nail polish...