Word: denver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rabbi Gershon Winer filed a $425,000 suit against the Bowman Biscuit Co. in Denver for getting him fired from his $13,000-a-year post at Denver's BMH Synagogue. The company, said Gershon, had misrepresented its cookies as containing only vegetable shortening and Gershon had endorsed their sale by the synagogue's Women's League. When the cookies turned out to have been made with 20% animal fat, hundreds of Denver Jews found that they had violated the dietary laws of their faith, angrily forced Rabbi Gershon's dismissal...
...Broadmoor has to face as a resort center is its isolated locale. This year, the plane carrying the three teams was unable to land on the runway as a bad snowstorm iced the field. The Broadmoor dealt with this situation by sending a bus and two limousines up to Denver, some 75 miles away, to pick up the teams. An official of the hotel said later, "We're working on something to control this situation." Indications are that the "Springs" will build a new airport, naturally with the assistance of the Broadmoor...
Slicker Service. To boost profits to pay for such expansion-and compete with bigger lines-Continental plans plush service all the way. Beginning April 28, the twice-daily Chicago-Denver-Los Angeles DC-7B flights (one way: $76, plus food and drinks) will be the first regular all-coach service operated with the same trimmings as first-class service...
...company (100 shares at $500 each), raised another $90,000 to help buy three twin-engined Lockheed 125, and became Varney vice president of operations at $400 a month. Varney changed its name to Continental, and Six, made president in 1938, slowly plotted routes outward from Pueblo to Denver, by 1948 had 2,772 miles through Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma. As a further step, Six made interchange deals with American Airlines, United and Braniff. which permitted him to book customers to the West Coast...
LOREN DUNTON Denver...