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...business so fast that it forced the scheduled lines to start air-coach flights (today 34% of all airline travel is by air coach). North American made enough money to buy two Douglas DC-6Bs for nonstop transcontinental flights, has three more on order, and has been able to chop its coast-to-coast fare to $75 one way. The line can also boast proudly in its ads that it has flown "1 billion passenger-miles without an accident-A perfect safety record." North American, which will keep on flying while it files an appeal before the full board, makes...
...soon: in less than three centuries, the pioneers had ripped deeply into the continent's skin of trees, and another century might have left the U.S. as bare and barren as a desert. From the time of the first settlers, Americans had operated on a theory of chop and run; they had none of the Western European's respect for the wealth of forests. The mythological hero, Paul Bunyan, was a logger who uprooted trees with his bare hands...
Edwards, Whatley, and Jorgensen combined with one of Ulen's sophomore dividends, Chouteau Dyer to set a 400-yard free style relay record in the next meet, against M.I.T.; they sped the distance in 3:41 flat to chop 1.4 seconds off a Crimson mark...
...ascended the rise to the Wellesley "Rec" (the name of the building where the meeting was held) we could hear the sound of frenzied wood chopping and gleeful shouts. All the good wood choppers had been divided into two teams and were battling to see which team could chop the fastest. A healthy blond girl timed each team, so there would be no disputes. One poor participant on the Blue team stepped up to his log, raised his axe, and buried it six inches in the ground. He said, "I missed," so the crowd around him would not think that...
Asking Red China to accept Chiang's presence on Formosa, complained Chou with Communist chop logic, was like asking a Munich-like appeasement. "To sacrifice territory and sovereignty can only lead to further aggression. It cannot bring about genuine peace. The Chinese people understand that only by resisting aggression can peace be defended...