Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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North Beach Airport's present 105 acres lie on the south shore of Flushing Bay, eight miles by road northeast of Grand Central Station (in whose shadow most commercial airlines have their midcity passenger terminals), across the East River and the new Tri-Borough Bridge. Although $2,358,000 went into the land, runways, hangars, seaplane ramps, beacons & facilities for servicing visiting planes when Curtiss-Wright built North Beach in 1929. only schools, private flyers and taxis patronized the field. No line made it a terminus. In 1934 the City of New York agreed...
...hazardous to approach, its commercial activities are confined to a single regular passenger service-one American Airliner a day to Boston-taxi services and private flying. Third field is Port Washington, a temporary base for German and British flying boats and Bermuda Clippers. The 20-mile journey from Grand Central takes just under an hour. The great runways at Mitchell Field and the smaller ones at Miller Field, Staten Island are used by the Army; Roosevelt Field is largely taxi service and training schools. Bendix, in New Jersey, developing fast from the days when it was famed under the name...
...Republic announces that Heywood Broun has joined its staff. . . . The major event of 1937 has been the growth of organized labor. Central to the interest of New Republic readers is the unionization of writers, office workers, professional people; spokesman and leader in this field -Heywood Broun...
...Post Office Department opened the bids for four new airmail routes. The minor run from Cheyenne to Huron, S. Dak. went to Wyoming Air Service, for the realistic bid of 19.8? a mile. To be sure of getting the far more valuable run rom Washington to Buffalo, however, Pennsylvania-Central Air Lines felt obliged to offer to do the job for an infinitesimal .00008? a mile, though it will possibly cost as much as 30? a mile. The contracts for the other two new routes-Dayton-to-Chicago via Fort Wayne and Winslow, Ariz.-to-San Francisco-went to Transcontinental...
...work" was exactly what critics of Hollywood ought to do, said Ohio State University's scholarly Dr. Edgar Dale. He also recommended a Consumers' Research organization to evaluate Hollywood's productions. Meantime the action of three progressive schools near Philadelphia (Friend's Central, Oak Lane Country Day, Cheltenham Township High School) showed that at least some educators thought some films had some educational value. To show their adolescent charges how the world wags, the Progressive Education Association prepared for classroom screenings of Winter set, Black Legion, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, The Informer...