Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Denver, Colo. has had notorious trouble with Indians, dueling, prostitution and the 16-1 ratio of silver and gold. More lasting than any of these has been Denver's trouble with transport. Founded in 1858, this roaring frontier town presently grew into one of the West's most important cities, with some 300,000 inhabitants. But not until 1934 did it succeed in getting on a transcontinental railroad. That year, with a wild barbecue and great civic jubilation, Denver finally holed through the Moffat Tunnel under the continental divide, got a direct train route to the East.* Meanwhile...
Though almost all its traffic and trade are eastwest, Denver has only a north-south airline. To get to either coast a Denverite has a choice of flying north for 97 mi. on Wyoming Air Service to Cheyenne and United Air Lines' transcontinental route or south for 419 mi. on Wyoming Air Service and Varney Air Transport to catch TWA at Albuquerque. Though Denver and the airlines have long been aware that both could profit by altering this uneconomic situation, they have been prevented from doing so by an opposition as steep as the scarp of the Rockies which...
...frown on any proposed extension of one airline or creation of a new one if it will compete with an established service (TIME, March 22). Since the Post Office controls the air mail subsidy, its word is tantamount to law and many a proposed extension has failed to materialize. Denver is such a case. Any new transcontinental line through Denver would compete with United and TWA. Any extension by United or TWA into Denver would compete with Wyoming Air or Varney, which now have all the traffic. Result: a stymie. United reluctantly began to dicker with Wyoming...
...Jewish Hospital's original malcontent, Telephone Operator Rhatigan, continued to picket the institution. Director Hinenburg, fed up with labor troubles, announced that he was quitting. His new job: superintendent and medical director of the rich, peaceful sanatorium of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society at Denver...
...When the Denver Post, where he was next employed, discontinued its morning edition in 1928, Watson started back East in a second-hand flivver with his wife, then pregnant, and $25 capital. At Fremont, Neb. they ran out of gas and money, but got on to Chicago where Watson landed a job with the AP, which in time shifted him to its New York office. There his job, besides rewriting and editing, included important reporting assignments...