Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hongkong, a Fairy 3-F seaplane with three Royal Air Force officers aboard became unmanageable in the air directly above the aircraft carrier H. M. S. Hermes. Plunging down like a plummet it tore a hole in the Hermes' flying deck, burst into flames and then rolled overboard into the sea. By smart work with a boat-hook the dead body of Flying Officer A. W. Hale was recovered before it sank; but divers had to go down after what remained of Air Lieutenant J. H. Graham and Telegraphist Stanley Jackson...
...Further it should be pointed out that the Charter of the Royal Dutch Co. requires that all its officers and directors be Dutch subjects...
Paradoxically light was being thrown upon Sir Henri himself, last week, from Manhattan. There President Richard Airey of the Asiatic Petroleum Co., a Royal Dutch subsidiary, declared: "I wish to dispel a popular illusion that Sir Henri Deterding has changed his nationality from Dutch to British. . . . Living principally in England, as he does, he prefers to be known by his British title . . . but he has never changed his nationality...
Commenting further, Mr. Airey denied that the British Government owns any share in Royal Dutch, but stated his belief that it owns 56% of the common stock of the rival Anglo-Persian Oil Company...
...ROYAL FAMILY-Stage folk keep the home fires burning brightly (TIME...