Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York to Miami. Three loaded planes opened the first New York-to-Miami passenger and express line last week (Eastern Air Express...
Transport Industry's Size. Three-quarters of a billion dollars are now invested in the entire aviation industry. Forty-five companies are transporting mail, express and passengers over 75,000 miles daily. Last year they carried 52,934 passengers. This year the number will approximate 150,000. Only between San Francisco and Los Angeles and between New York and Boston do ships frequently have all passenger seats sold. Passenger traffic does not yet pay its way. Mail contracts, which represents the U. S. government's way of furnishing the transport companies their essential subsidies, almost pay the operating expenses...
Newsgatherers were soon asking Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island what he would do about Mr. Blackshear. Bishop Stires was pained, but he explained that the Episcopal Church leaves the individual parish practically autonomous. He declined to express any opinion except this: "Personally I have the greatest affection and a warm paternal feeling for our colored brethren...
...Hecht. He is in love with the girl who helps him in his act. Off stage he cannot tell her what he feels - something makes him abuse her and act mean, but in the act he throws his voice into the dummy and lets it express his love. The imagery giving power to this anecdote was certainly apparent to von Stroheim. He started out to act it stiffly and gloomily, making you feel the knot in the head of the man who could talk in any voice except his own. Director James Cruze, however, seemed convinced that he was directing...
...troubles. He is president of The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. Also, he is closely interested in Transcontinental Air Transport, which uses Santa Fe rail service for part of its route and competes with the Santa Fe for more. Also, he is director of the Railway Express Agency, Inc., for whose business both the rail and his air systems compete...