Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What spurred the bondholders' committee to act last week was the failure of the college authorities to live up to a re-organization agreement made last year. Enriched by the proceeds of their 1935 Eastern tour, the Galloping Gaels took in $140,680 in gate receipts last season. The gross income from football amounted to 37% of all the money the college received during the fiscal year. Athletic expenses, however, including a $7,000 salary plus 10% of the gate for Coach Slip Madigan, somehow mounted to $139,862. Skeptical, the bondholders' committee demanded the right to examine...
...sportsmen banded last year to help Government and private conservation agencies protect and restore the nation's wild life, they chose Walter P. Chrysler as first chairman of their American Wild Life Institute. Motorman Chrysler, whose favorite fun is shooting wildfowl on his Great Choptank River estate in eastern Maryland, showed himself a good friend of conservation by serving as an Institute director until last spring, contributing substantial sums to its treasury...
...line failed to get the mail contracts it needed. Crashes killed not only Jimmy Wedell, but all five other original pilots on the line. Last May a crash killed Harry Williams. Last week, for an undisclosed price, his widow, one-time Cinemactress Marguerite Clark, sold the business to Eastern Air Lines, which flies between New York and New Orleans. Present Wedell-Williams airline is the 338-mi. run from New Orleans to Houston, Tex. In honor of its unlucky founders. Eastern will call this important extension the Wedell-Williams Division...
...recoup, railroads in the West and Southwest got Interstate Commerce Commission approval for a "store-to-door" service. At both ends of the rail haul the roads furnished trucks to pick up or deliver freight free. There was no effective opposition to the plan. Last April the major Eastern roads started to follow suit. But on the day the new service was to begin, so loud were truckmen's howls that the I. C. C. hastily suspended permission (TIME, April...
...shipments whose tariff was at least 30? per 100 lb., the Eastern roads had offered free pick-up & delivery. They also offered shippers who handled their own pick-up or delivery a 5?-per-100 lb. discount. "Rebate!" screamed truckmen. After a month's cogitation, the I. C. C. decided in favor of the railroads, except for the rebate clause. When truckmen still yowled, this permission also was suspended...