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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Airvia's N. Y.-Boston Line. Airvia Transportation Co. last week began its long-planned seaplane service between New York and Boston with American Aeronautical Savoia-Marchetti seaplanes. Colonial Airways operates land planes between those cities. Airvia's first working planes are named the Roger Q. Williams and the Lewis A. Yancey, after the trans-Atlantic flyers (TIME, July 15), both members of the firm...
...Foreign Minister began to reply -softly at first-the excited Deputies seemed less than usually responsive to the persuasive cadence of his cello voice. If M. Briand was to turn the tide he must indeed surpass himself, and presently, magnificently...
...building was suddenly shattered. John Cotton Dana, a civil engineer, was made Librarian. Declaring the value of a library was not in its collection but circulation, he opened the shelves, removed red-tape, gave Denver citizens a chance to read. When this was accomplished the new Librarian promptly began working on another radical theory, that the library could cooperate with the schools. He soon opened the first children's department in the country, expanded the function of the library with an art exhibit...
Meanwhile cannonading began from another side. The New York World, famed capital wetpaper, detailed the following history, calculated further to embarrass Bishop Cannon: In 1917 (just before the Food Administration Law went into effect) Bishop Cannon bought 650 barrels of flour in the name of Blackstone College for girls, a Virginia Methodist College of which he was president. The purchase was brought to the attention of Food Administrator Herbert Hoover who referred the matter to Roland William Boyden, Chief Food Administration enforcement officer...
...during the past year. After a somewhat in-and-out period from 1923 through 1927, the company acquired Trumbull Steel Co. in February 1928. In April 1928 it got able Elmer T. McCleary to leave the vice-presidency of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and become its president. Soon earnings began a steady climb. The 1927 net had been about $3,000,000. The 1928 income (with eight months of Trumbull) was $4,642,000. The first six months of 1929 showed net profit of $6,140,435, almost four times the net for the first half of 1928. Able President...