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Passed. Corporations which last week passed their quarterly dividends included: Airway Electric Appliance Corp.. Backstay Welt Co., Continental-Diamond Fibre Co., Diamond Electrical Manufacturing Co., Kaybee Stores, Inc., Rio Tinto Co., Ltd.. Schumacher Wall Board Co.. Service Stations...
Method of choosing family was as follows: The magazine reasoned that since more than 56% of the U. S. population is urban, the family must be city-dwellers. Indianapolis was chosen because it is a rail, highway and airway centre and because it is the nearest big city to the geographical centre of population of the U.S. (1.9 mi. west of Whitehall, Ind.). In Indianapolis the 598 Smiths, 174 Whites, and 3,366 Millers, Johnsons, Browns, Joneses, Davises, Wilsons, Moores, Williamses, Thompsons and Taylors listed in the telephone directory were asked to define the typical family. Then Reporter...
Miles of lighted airway...
...climax of a sharp fight between Western Union and Postal Telegraph Co. for the exclusive rights to sell airline tickets at their branch offices. Last week Western Union had made contracts with 18 airlines, to Postal's ten. But Postal's list represented 57,000 mi. of airway to Western Union...
...through service with trimotored passenger planes is open to everyone, by virtue of new schedules on National Air Transport (New York-Chicago) and Boeing Air Transport (Chicago-San Francisco). Passengers leaving New York about 9 a. m. transfer at Chicago in midafternoon, fly all night (in darkness over lighted airway from Iowa City to Salt Lake City) to land in San Francisco shortly after noon (31 hr.). Eastbound passengers take off about noon, fly in darkness from Salt Lake City to Omaha, reach Chicago at 11 a. m., New York in early evening...