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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elsie Flake, "sandwich queen" of Winston-Salem, N. C. Miss Marion McClench, prime insurance saleswoman of Detroit, could talk shop with Miss Ella Schroeder, successful diamond merchant of Cincinnati. Tampa's Postmistress Elizabeth Rainard had a look at Miss Emma Coldiron of Walla Walla, Wash., operator of a de luxe bus line. Great was the applause when Mrs. Eva Hunt Dockery, of Boise, Idaho, definitely predicted that in ten years the organization would have "one woman Cabinet member ... 25 members of Congress . . . Governors of five states . . . five ordained ministers." Louis Edwin Van Norman, chief business specialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: F.B.P.W.C. | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...American Airway's man, Gene Summers, was at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, contending with Brazil's Secretary of Public Works Victor Konder for Brazilian air mail contracts, which would profit Pan- American when it extends its lines down around the east coast to Buenos Aires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: 246 Hours | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...north coast is Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transposes Aereos, commonly called SCADTA. Head of SCADTA is redoubtable Dr. Peter P. von Bauer, an Austrian who has become a Colombian citizen. He is the aeronautical yes-no man of the country. Whoever wishes to touch Colombia with aviation lines must man fully deal with him. Pan-American traded rights with him in order to complete its Caribbean line from Panama to Port of Spain, Trinidad. He demanded and received the right to run SCADTA planes from Barranquilla, Colombia, to Panama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: 246 Hours | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...radikoj de multaj lingvoj Eperanto evoluigis per la laboro de pola kuracisto Doktoro Lazaro Ludovico Zamenhof kied pensema barbita vizago en olenpentrita portreto malsupren rigardis la kunvenin-tajn Esperantistojn la pasintan semajnon. Esperanto sonas kiel ia itala au hispana dialekto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kunvenintajn Esperantistojn | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Spanish Flyers. Queen Victoria of Spain last week gave a formal luncheon to Commander Ramon Franco, Julio Ruiz de Alda, Eduardo Gonzales Gallarza. Spanish trans-atlantic aspirants, and their English rescuers (TIME, July 1, 8). A stayaway: Mechanic Sergeant Pedro Madariaga. Reason: Spanish court rules permit only members of the nobility or persons of high official rank to attend formal royal functions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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