Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Merger. There is many a venerable bank which only after years of business considers a merger. But last week directors of Underwriters Trust Co. of New York, three weeks old, admitted they were already discussing a merger with the two-year-old Sixth Avenue Bank...
...formidable Costes record: shot down 13 enemy fighters during the War; served conspicuously in other air branches -artillery fire regulation, reconnoitering, day & night bombardment; given the Legion of Honor after his sixth plane victory; made an officer of the Legion and voted the U. S. Distinguished Flying Cross (with Joseph Lebrix) in 1928 for a globe-circling adventure which took them from Paris to St. Louis (Africa), to Port Natal (Brazil), all over South America, thence to New Orleans, Washington, San Francisco, then by boat to Tokyo, by air to China, Indo-China, Calcutta, Karachi, Aleppo, Syria, Athens, Marseilles...
...Line (from Morgan interests in 1926), the Elder Demster Line (West Africa), the Union Castle Line (South Africa)*. Other K orders have resulted in fast steamers, improved service, mechanical-innovation. Today the Royal Mail's red ensign flies over a fleet of some 2,600,000 tons ?one-sixth of the British merchant marine, the greatest fleet in the world...
...Paris, cocky William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling touched gloves again with Primo Carnera, the Brobdingnagian Italian carpenter who recently beat him on a foul (TIME, Dec. 9). In the clinches Stribling strained and sweated against a body 85 Ibs. heavier, 12½ in. taller than his own. In the sixth round he hit Carnera in the stomach. Carnera's vast legs buckled. He knelt a minute, then rose. In the seventh round little Stribling's punches angered Carnera. A strange expression contorted his wide face. The bell was ringing as he rushed at Stribling, swung at him three...
...those who could hear. By sign language also a trio, silently accompanied by twisting fingers in the crowd, articulated the hymns "Abide With Me," ''Lead, Kindly Light." "O Love That Will Not Let Me Go." Died. James P. Noonan, 51, president of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, sixth vice president of American Federation of Labor; at Washington; of burns suffered when he fell asleep while smoking...