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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reduce rates. However, very reasonably, they desire a compromise rate between the old schedule of 3.6 cents a mile and the proposed slash to 2 cents a mile. The suggested compromise of 2.5 cents a mile is sensible, for too drastic action at this time may deliver the coup de grace instead of being restorative...
...Friedrichshafen after four days of high-altitude stumping, the Hindenburg underwent a swift overhaul, to prepare the brand-new ship for its real test-a voyage to South America under Captain Ernst August Lehmann. On its first transatlantic trip the Hindenburg, carrying 30 passengers, was scheduled to reach Rio de Janeiro in 80 hours. The voyage will be no novelty to Captain Lehmann. He grew up with the science of airship operation, was for years Dr. Hugo Eckener's right-hand...
...Governor Allred Convict Baker explained his nickname: "Wal, Guv'nor, when I first landed in de pen, I was chopping wood one day when we cut down an oak tree and a big limb hit me in de head. Dat limb broke, but I went right on workin'. So de boys call me Ironhead...
...backed by a syndicate which includes Manhattan's famed banking firm of Lehman Brothers and Milton Erlanger of Erlanger Mills (B. V. D.'s). They sent a small, vociferous textile man named George Fisher to Paris where he acquired U. S. rights from Socièté de Construction et d'Appareillage Scientifique pour le Tricotage et le Tissage, otherwise known as "Socast." U. S. sales plans are to be formulated this month...
...transmitted. A dressmaker in Manhattan may see a new color ten minutes after it is shown in a Paris salon, instead of waiting days for a boat. Tall, dark Howard Ketcham, 33, began his color career in an advertising agency, joined the automotive paint division of du Pont de Nemours & Co.. reduced 13,000 body colors to the 600 listed in the Automotive Color Index. Sent around the world by du Pont to have a look at the color habits of other nations. Colorist Ketcham discovered that Mohammedans will not buy green products because green is their sacred color...