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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line companies blossomed out with a minor change in name-part of the Farley program for corporate reorganization. Eastern Air Transport became Eastern Air Lines. Transcontinental & Western Air put three new periods into its abbreviated title. American Airways switched to American Air Lines. Only Western Air Express made a major change by becoming General Air Lines. Because its previous contracts were held under the names of its operating subsidiaries, only United Air Lines bid under its old corporate title...
Everyone who knows, with some intimacy, the history either of Harvard or of any other New England college where such meetings of the faculty have been maintained, knows that they have been in the past, greatly useful. They have permitted the teachers to express themselves in a direct manner before all their fellows, whether of high or low degree, and they have given the president an opportunity to gain broad understanding of the thought of his whole faculty. Dr. Conant has truly remarked, however, that as the teaching group grew very large, the worth of such assemblies diminished. "Where...
...present failures in aviation will result in a permanent improvement, both in our organization and equipment. We have everything in this country to do with, in aviation. All we need is proper organization and an intelligent and patriotic control. WILLIAM MITCHELL Middleburg, Va. Grateful Georgian Sirs: I wish to express my appreciation for your stand against the sportswriters as to the come back of Bobby Jones [TIME, April 2]. As all loyal Georgians, I am an ardent admirer of his superb quality as a golfer and a sportsman. May your broad-minded foresight in sports and other departments always prevail...
...stretching from Newark to Los Angeles via Philadelphia, Columbus, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Albuquerque. This, the "Lindbergh" line, is the shortest route from coast to coast. Connecting the United and TWA transcontinental routes in two places are Western Air Express routes, one from Cheyenne to Albuquerque and the other from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles ( ). On the former route, a new mail contract will be awarded only from Cheyenne to Pueblo. Down the Atlantic Coast, from Newark to Miami and inland from Richmond to Atlanta and Jacksonville runs the Eastern Air Transport route...
Biddy Mrs. Hicks, summoned to the scene of the crime the next morning for the express purpose of cleaning up the glass, took one look at the huge hole in the window, asked one penetrating question: "Was the window open when he threw the revolver?"; offered one valuable suggestion: "You better shake out your shoes before you wear them again...