Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fuller's flashy marketing and advertising ideas kept Richfield running its rapid expansion course. He was quiet in business, rewarded justly and reprimanded mercilessly. He was an air enthusiast, held much stock in Fokker Aircraft Corp. before General Motors took control, also helped found Western Air Express which has likewise been aided by General Motors (TIME, March 16). He had a $150,000 "air yacht," also the seagoing Krupp-built Carissima. He gave big parties, was said to have been one of the semi-mythical "Big 10" bull market operators, was reputedly worth $20,000,000. He never turned...
...ning came to London last week for the express purpose of persuading World public opinion that Germany faces bankruptcy and revolution unless her Reparations burden is reduced. Mr. MacDonald seemed ready to help-the British attitude being that such reduction is entirely up to the U. S. Under the friendly headline WILL GERMANY GO BANKRUPT Scot MacDonald's hospitable Herald said...
...express my appreciation of the article on Antioch in May 18 TIME? It will help...
...mater's potent trustee (see p. 36). At the Union League dinner the President was presented with a life-sized portrait of himself (see cut) painted last summer by Greek Artist Pilides Costa. In an extemporaneous speech of thanks President Hoover declared: "It is difficult for me to express with my natural-I hope natural-modesty that it gives one pleasure to see oneself portrayed in a better fashion than the normal snap photograph. [This picture] may serve as an antidote to some of the current portraits under which I suffer. . . . "This club has stood steadfast. ... Its membership...
...past year, said Secretary Young, transport planes flew 40,080,000 miles, carried 418,000 passengers, 9,100,000 Ib. of mail, 3,250,000 Ib. of express. Forty-four companies, operating 125 routes, fly 650 aircraft valued at $14,000,000. In miscellaneous (other than transport) operations, 2,200,000 persons flew during the year...