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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four royal nurses?Purdie (English), Gordon (Scotch), Black (Irish) and Davies (Welsh)?were paid weekly from five to eight pounds apiece ($24-$38), and will receive from His Majesty personally "a substantial gift" according to an announcement last week at Buckingham Palace. About £3,000 ($14,580) was spent to install the special anti-fog machinery which purified the air in George V's bed- room (TIME, Dec. 17), and was considered indispensable in saving his life. To set up a special pharmacy in the Palace and keep it staffed day and night with the most expert drug...
...engines (Wrights) functioned normally on previous flights and on this takeoff. One engine failed shortly after the takeoff. Another may have failed later. The pilot was convinced that his plane was overloaded, ? He was not sufficiently familiar with the area in the immediate vicinity of the neighborhood. He paid insufficient attention to the direction and velocity of the wind. From the first period after the engine failure, he probably had decided on no positive complete maneuver...
...effective sound-picture. The story, adapted without alteration from a recent stage success, and directed by the author, Bayard Veiller, concerns a showgirl, who is tried for the murder of her lover and is defended by her brother, a lawyer. Best shot?Norma Shearer telling how she paid for her brother's education...
...would have carried $15,000,000 insurance placed by the N. G. L.; and in her 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...
About Calvin Coolidge's name last week swirled the names of two great publishers and two editors. Mr. Coolidge was, as usual, impassively the centre. He was the author. His job had been to write a story for each editor. He did, and each paid him well...