Word: packet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house has been sold, the family is moving out. Her relatives gather. All save one have denied themselves life, just as Alison had. After a good deal of melodrama, during which a doddering old aunt trys to burn the house down, a niece gets hold of a packet of Alison's poems- the ones which tell of her thwarted love. The niece is the only one who has attained the freedom which Alison's poems sang about. After three acts she persuades the family that just as the dead poetess was always making little gifts to her intimates...
Lamport & Holt. More pleased than shocked were Britishers last week when venerable (formed in 1845) Lamport & Holt Ltd. went into a receivership. The Royal Mail Steam Packet group of shipping companies, to which Lamport & Holt belongs, has given many a shock already and last week's receivership merely meant that the management has started a reorganization. Shipping men foresaw some such development when Lamport & Holt withdrew their South American passenger service recently (TIME...
...When the packets Tom Greene and Betsy Ann raced on the Ohio river last year (TIME, July 29) the little Betsy Ann was the second to reach the finish line but the first entirely across it. That started an argument which could not be settled until, last week, they lined up again, their engines roaring and their stovepipe smokestacks belching smoke black as ink, 50 ft. behind the starting line at Fernbank dam, twelve miles below Cincinnati. A small cannon boomed; both started for the line, the Tom Greene accelerating with the quick pick-up that has made river-people...
There was many a doubt expressed last year concerning the competency of Owen Crosby Philipps, Lord Kylsant, sometimes called "Lord of the Seven Seas," chairman of the huge far-flung Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. which includes among its many steamship lines the White Star. Last year Lord Kylsant was publicly accused of mismanagement by his brother Viscount St. Davids. Royal Mail stock sank swiftly and dangerously, Royal Mail passed its dividend (TIME, Dec. 23). Lord Kylsant, it appeared, had purchased investments in "other than shipping companies." Good-will was not augmented by the knowledge that Lord Kylsant draws...
...which last week shrouded the Atlantic seaboard, the 5,600-ton packet...