Word: coast-to-coast
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...interested in flying than in banking. Through his new concern with aviation he met the late P. G. Johnson, president of Boeing Aircraft, who was then helping William E. Boeing, board chairman of a gigantic aviation trust, United Aircraft & Transport Corp. By 1931 the company included the newly founded coast-to-coast United Air Lines and a number of plane-making and aviation-equipment companies. Patterson went to work for Johnson as his assistant. He had picked the right time and spot...
...Actress Jinx Falkenburg was crowned 1947 Radio Sweater Girl by the National Knitted Outerwear Foundation, which picked Nina Foch as Hollywood Queen. The New York Yankees crowned Operatic Soprano Helen Traubel Miss Symphonic Matinee of 1947 and gave her an autographed baseball. Veteran Muralist Dean Cornwell reported after a coast-to-coast tour that in good looks "suburban girls lead city girls," and have "better developed breasts, more streamlined figures ... a lasting, healthy bloom to their skin. . . ." Sweden's 88-year-old King Gustaf moved down to the French Riviera for the sun & fun. Arid in Britain...
...with lunchboxes for a glimpse of the stars. There were 35 Oscars, 16 searchlights (crisscrossing in contrasting shades of white, blue, red and orange), a 66-piece orchestra, 250 policemen, 90 ushers, 50 stagehands, six parking lots and 125 parking-lot attendants. There were three hours of coast-to-coast broadcast and 6,000 popped flashbulbs...
...Eagle's Brood was worth every nickel it cost. It was written by CBS Writer-Director Robert Lewis Shayon, 32, after a 9,000-mile, $2,000 coast-to-coast tour of U.S. slums and prisons. "What I saw," says Shayon, "hit me between the eyes." His script, as radio rarely does, hit listeners between the ears...
Crown Prince Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia, eagle-faced eldest of Ibn Saud's 40-odd sons, got an eagle's-eye view of Manhattan. In the city on a coast-to-coast tour, the Prince played the tourist to the hilt-hustled straight from the Pennsylvania Railroad Station to the Empire State Building for an educational gape. Manhattan gaped, too: with the Prince was a retinue of protectors hung with cartridge belts, golden swords, and jeweled daggers...