Word: vias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concluding with the official hauteur of his potent brother (Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes, one-time [1920-24] Ambassador to the U. S.,) Sir Eric Geddes said: "You are aware, gentlemen, that our new air service from England via Egypt to India will be inaugurated on Jan. 1. I have the honor to announce that Sir Samuel Hoare (British Secretary of State for Air) and Lady Maude (Sir Samuel's wife) will travel as passengers on the first of our regularly scheduled flights from Great Britain to India...
...Government of their "unbiased and unprejudiced services" accepting part of a $441,000 melon as a reward for their speedy transfer of $7,000,000 worth of the American Metal Co.'s stock from the care of the Alien Property Custodian back to the original German owners via the Societe Suisse...
...home in Cleveland, Dr. Charles Thwing, president-emeritus of Western Reserve University and national president of Phi Beta Kappa, assembled his effects and, with Mrs. Thwing, went on from Cleveland to his post of intellectual commander. He could accompany the cruise only as far as Los Angeles, via the Panama Canal, but planned to rejoin it in February in the Mediterranean. Meantime his duties would be performed by one or several of other executives embarking-Deans Albert K. Heckel of the University of Missouri, and George E. Howes of Williams College; Dr. William Haigh of Switzerland; Daniel Chase...
President Wilson, bound for Honolulu via Chinese and Japanese ports. Thence, two weeks later, he will proceed to San Francisco...
...giant lizard reported by P. A. Ouwens, a Dutch hunter, in 1912. (The Duke of Mecklinburg shot a specimen 20 ft. long.) Mr. Burden organized an expedition, including Mrs. Burden, Professor E. R. Dunn of Smith College and one de Fosse, French huntsman. They reached Komodo last June via China. The British flyer, Alan Cobham, stopped at Komodo en route from England to Australia (TIME, Aug. 16 et seq.) and, finding the Burdens there, took them on a reconnaissance flight over the island's jungled, mountainous interior. Sighting the quarry from the air, the Burdens fetched their comrades...