Word: coast-to-coast
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While Frederick DeW. Bolman, Jr. '35, captain of the two-man Crimson team which will broadcast its arguments against an Anglo-American alliance over a coast-to-coast and trans-Atlantic radio network, flies, Arthur G. Gilman '36, goes by train. Tomorrow morning in Gotham's Radio City, whence the American broadcast originates, they meet for a rehearsal before the debate goes on the air at 3.00 o'clock...
...That may not mean much to members of the radio audience but it means a lot to us, particularly to our president, William Samuel Paley. Bill Paley is not only the man who built up Columbia from a losing proposition with 16 stations to a highly profitable coast-to-coast system with 102 stations. Bill Paley is our largest stockholder...
Last week a stock model Douglas transport plane zipped across the U. S. from Los Angeles to Newark in 12 hr. 3 min. It made but one stop-at Kansas City. Although it failed by nearly two hours to equal the coast-to-coast time of Roscoe Turner's racing plane, it broke the transport record and clearly showed that a 12-hr, transcontinental passenger service is possible, if not yet practical...
...empire. That done, his next purpose was to get back to New York in a hurry. He ordered out Union Pacific's fastest equipment, got on a private train with his secretary, told the engineer to "open her up wide." The Harriman Special steamed into Manhattan with a coast-to-coast record of 71 hr. 27 min. Last week Railroader Harriman's 28-year-old transcontinental record was at last smashed and the smasher was none other than Mr. Harriman's lean and able son William Averell...
...Mott Haven, where it stopped. From that point on it was ignominiously towed into New York by a black, stumpy little electric locomotive; a state law forbids Diesel-powered engines from using the city tunnels. At Grand Central Terminal M10001 was hailed by Press & public for the fastest coast-to-coast run ever made on rails-3,258 mi. in 56 hr. 55 min. Son Harriman had beaten his father's record by nearly 15 hours, clipped a full day from regular transcontinental express time...