Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into action last week went the first transcontinental airway ever born full grown. It was also the first airline to span Canada, bridging the 2,688 miles between Montreal and Vancouver. The 130,000,000 U. S. citizens have only just begun to support their three transcontinental air routes. Whether the passenger traffic from 11,120,000 Canadians could support one did not bother Trans-Canada's operators. The line is Government-controlled and should pay its way by airmail revenue alone...
...Smith refused to run on the State Democratic ticket with him and at last Hearst knew he would never be President. And so after 27 years in the East he moved back to California and began to surround himself with a grandeur that no other private citizen has ever matched in U. S. history...
...spent money as few princes ever dared to do. He ensconced himself in San Simeon with a zoo, bought St. Donat's castle in Wales, built an elaborate Hollywood publicity machine to glorify Marion Davies, indulged himself insatiably in the purchase of art treasures until he had spent $35,000,000 for what could have been bought for about $15,000,000. For money he used the income of his papers (of which he bought six more), the profits of the mines he had inherited from his prospector father, and a pocketful of promissory notes. Always a worry...
...Great Hearst. Hearst's career spanned exactly half a century, and more than any other career in history it proved the power and privileges of a free press. No other press lord ever wielded his power with less sense of responsibility; no other press ever matched the Hearst press for flamboyance, perversity and incitement of mass hysteria. Hearst never believed in anything much, not even Hearst, and his appeal was not to men's minds but to those infantile emotions which he never conquered in himself: arrogance, hatred, frustration, fear. But while Hearst dragged his readers vicariously through...
...been rattling past stations, stalling in dark tunnels. Suddenly last week, to the general public's surprise, it slowed for a stop. Tentative acceptance of the city's offer to buy the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. for $175,000,000 brought unification closer than it had ever...