Word: coast-to-coast
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Last week, the ABC network apparently agreed to hold still. New York's mayor, who is retiring in only one sense, signed up for $1,000 a week (more than twice his salary as mayor) to do a coast-to-coast sustaining Sunday night commentary. Starting date: Jan. 6. Asked whether a new star was born, the Little Flower replied: "You may say that it is starting to twinkle...
...Chicks. In three months, Skyways' seven ace-manned Conestogas (on which California's Bank of America now holds a $58,000 mortgage) have hopped all over the U.S. barnstorming for cargo to fly. President Prescott has fixed his own fat prices ($1,600 for a full-plane, coast-to-coast trip), charged shippers double the one-way price when planes have had to deadhead to Skyways' base in Los Angeles...
...Voyage. One of the most important U.S. shipping routes will be revived, after four years, when twelve intercoastal ship operators start coast-to-coast sailings next month. The War Shipping Administration allocated 55 Victory type ships to begin the service maintained by 144 ships...
...will also put Constellations on transcontinental routes, to cut the coast-to-coast time to ten hours...
With trains like these, 74-year-old Edward G. Budd believes that plenty of passengers will still travel by rail in the postwar air and auto age. But Budd wants speed too: he holds that the railroads' ultimate goal should be a 50-hour coast-to-coast streamliner, charging $70 in the coaches...