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...give "hand-outs" to the reporters, the new publicity men attempt to create new situations which the reporters cannot ignore. Recently, many newspapers carried pictures of the driver of an ox-cart shaking hands with President Hoover. The man was supposed to have drives his ox-cart full of Aroostook potatoes all the way from Maine to Washington. In such a fashion, the potato growen set the name of their product before the public. The actual facts of the matter were that the potatoes were loaded of from a train on the outskirts of Washington. Makers of corn syrup sent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whispering Campaigns And Publicity Projects Revealed On Gigantic Scale | 3/18/1932 | See Source »

...Banger & Aroostook Railroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Earnings | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

...Nickel Plate: Boston & Maine, Maine Central, Bangor & Aroostook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: New England Inkling | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

Boston & Maine-Delaware & Hudson, Bangor & Aroostook. Maine Central...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Merger Plan Hatched | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...destroyers discover the whereabouts of the Black fleet's chief threat. By then it was too late. In the early morning the Saratoga pushed her bow into the wind, 45 planes soared from her launching deck, made their way above the vital locks. At the same time the Aroostook, representing the absent aircraft-carrier Langley, a giant Sikorsky started across the Isthmus to the locks Gatun, dropped its "bombs,"' was interned in "neutral" territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Canal Destroyed | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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