Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only transcontinental line not financed by railroads, All American started last September with $1,000,000 capital, now operates some 30 day coaches. The new sleepers, built in Los Angeles by Crown Body Works and Columbia Coach Works, are about the best in the country. They have four compartments on each side, each compartment seating or sleeping three persons and containing a lavatory. Chief improvement, in addition to lightness, streamlining and quiet, is airconditioning, based on a new system. Previous sleepers have had cooling apparatus which never succeeded because it was too heavy. The new lightweight system, installed...
Ralph West Robey is 35 and a bachelor, handsome enough to have kept Topeka's young women in a flutter since his arrival. He advises Nominee Landon on banking and finance. Born in tiny Masontown, W. Va., Ralph Robey learned his economics in Indiana and Columbia Universities, has since expounded his views in the Christian Science Monitor, New York Evening Post, Washington Post and as banking instructor in Columbia's School of Business. An acquaintanceship with Columbia's Professor Raymond Moley put him on the fringe of the Roosevelt brain trust in 1932, but since the Bank...
Researches by Dr. Walter H. Eddy of Columbia's Teacher's College have indicated that freezing and thawing do not alter the content of vitamins, solids, fats, carbohydrates or proteins in mother's milk...
...Southern States exclude Negroes from their Universities. Year ago, as a test case, NAACP brought crusty University of Maryland into Maryland's Court of Appeals, succeeded in breaking its 128-year-old bar against Negroes. Last fortnight NAACP and Negro Lloyd Gaines marched into Circuit Court at Columbia, Mo. to see whether University of Missouri, lily-white since its opening in 1841, could be likewise forced across the color line...
...accent but his eyes-one brown, one green. He took up acting after an employer fired him for losing a package of bonds worth $147,000, worked his way up in bit parts on Broadway, directed a stock summer theatre, now has a long contract with Columbia. Last year he was paid $3,100 for acting in a picture in which he said two words ("Two Hearts...