Word: royals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whilst appreciating your very human account of the splendid service the U.S. Air Force is giving Berliners through the air lift [TIME, Oct. 18] . . . I was disappointed at your failure to make any comment upon the equally determined efforts of the Royal Air Force...
General lectures will open and close the School's program. Edmund Morgan, Royal Professor of Law, will open the School with a talk on "Legal Ethics" at 4:10 p.m. today in New Lecture Hall...
Princess at the Window. For the first time since 1938, Parliament was opened with full-dress ceremonial. Red robes trimmed with white fur, cutaways, top hats and striped trousers were taken out of mothballs or rented at high prices. The Household Cavalry who would escort the royal coach got ready to don their plumed helmets and breastplates, white breeches, high black boots, red and blue tunics. The Imperial State Crown was taken from...
...horse Sterope had just won the Cambridgeshire Stakes. The purse was a mere $12,273, but Townley stood to win a staggering $600,000 in bets. And the jockey on Royal Tara, which finished second, had claimed a foul against his horse. What if Townley's horse had won only to be disqualified...
...Plunge. The insurance companies, which usually shy away from foreign oil investments, jumped in with both feet. Nine of the biggest U.S. companies and one Canadian snapped up the biggest industrial bond issue ever offered. Shell Caribbean Petroleum Co. of N.J. (a Royal Dutch-Shell subsidiary) announced that the insurance companies would buy $250 million worth of its 20-year, 4% bonds. As security for the loan, Shell Caribbean put up 8,800,000 shares (or two-thirds) of the stock of Shell Union Oil Corp., Shell's U.S. subsidiary (the stock's market value last week...