Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Royal "Gassooning." A somewhat panegyrical biography³² and a scholarly travel book¼³ concerning Edward of Wales are current. From the former an anecdote...
...behind the yachts flashing results to the Express ai Dublin. That same year, Queer Victoria was on the Isle of Wight during Cowes Week and at her command I kept her in constant touch with H. R. H. Edward (VII) of Wales on the royal yacht, Osborne. I spanned the English Channel by wireless that year; extended the range up to 74 miles for messages between battleships; was ready with equipment for use in the Boer War. In 1899 the first wireless S.O.S. message was sent to shore, with direct effect, from the East Goodwin lightship, which was rammed...
...International Mercantile Marine Co. (J. P. Morgan & Co.) sold the White Star Line, the only profitable part of its fleets, last week to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. for $34,000,000. The late J. P. Morgan could find no Judge Gary for the shipping trust he planned in 1902, although he did get the ablest shipping executive on the Atlantic seaboard, Philip Albright Small Franklin, for president. Mr. Franklin has had many things to fight-foreign competition, inertia of U. S. shippers, a heavy $36,000,000 bonded indebtedness, most of all legislative handicaps. No other government regulates...
...bigheaded, slim girl of 20, Queen Victoria of England, signed a charter authorizing the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. to operate its 14 paddle-wheel steamers between England and the West Indies. That shipping business prospered although sometimes the new-fangled engines broke down and the captains had to hoist sails. When modern screw propellers were invented, the Royal Mail was the first to adopt the device. When there happened to be bargains in ships. Royal Mail bought them. Now its fleets, including the 500,000 tons of the White Star Line, count 2,500,000 gross tonnage, the largest...
...dissuade Sally, who loved him, really, after an argument in the woods that kept the wedding guests on tenterhooks, Cordelia's love for Preston was sufficient to bend her honor into the lie that made Sally say, "I will not," proud and slender at the altar in her royal blue broadcloth riding habit with glass buttons...