Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begin passenger service in its Lockheed 145 within a few weeks. For mail and passenger business from outside Canada it offers a 20-hour schedule from New York to Vancouver, and, after the transatlantic service begins, it will help get you in 40 hours from London to the Pacific coast...
...down his bonded indebtedness he floated stock. In 1930, when San Francisco Lawyer John Francis Neylan was his counsel, Hearst lumped together his six West Coast papers (on which he had previously borrowed $20,000,000), four other profitable newspapers and the superprofitable American Weekly into Hearst Consolidated Publications Inc. He valued "circulation, press franchises, libraries, etc." at $75,000,000, and with a barrage of publicity denouncing phony stock schemes sold $50,000,000 worth of preferred stock to the public...
Hearst has one close-knit group of generally profitable newspapers: the six on the Pacific Coast. The Los Angeles Herald & Express makes $1,000,000 a year, the Examiner $500.000. The San Francisco Examiner is another $1,000,000 paper. The Call-Bulletin and Oakland's Post-Enquirer earn far less, but stand to get a boost from the fair this year. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, once the weak sister of the Coast, has been pulling out of the red under Roosevelt Son-in-Law John Boettiger, will make enough in 1939 to offset 1938's losses. These...
Inevitable, apparently, to all such novels is the dash of Latin melodrama at the end. But the book is sharply written, sympathetic without being sentimental; and in conviction, if not in humor, it gains more than it suffers by comparison with Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat, its West Coast counterpart...
...prosperous Manhattan businessman and president of the New York Board of Education, Harris took suddenly to drink. Two years later, disgraced, he sailed for the Far East, became one of the most popular traders on the China Coast. He got the consular job because few wanted it, and because he was a bachelor-the Japanese wanted no foreign women in Japan...