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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since 1930 airline mail-loads have increased over 100%, passenger-miles 500%, freight and express 1,600%. Airline employment has meanwhile increased 350%, from 3,400 to 12,000, may reach 25,000 by 1943. The industry as a whole can expect to employ at least 97,000, at most...
...Speaking on behalf of the University, I wish to express regret that stu- dents in Harvard College have been reported as having interfered with the American Legion parade Thursday evening. As yet no complaint or statement as to what actually took place has been lodged with the collage authorities by the police or members of the Legion. The matter is being carefully investigated by the University, with a view to taking disciplinary action. I have personally conveyed my regrets for the incident to the Commander of the Cambridge post of the American Legion...
...back and forth. But on each of the first two days following the hurricane 1,000 passengers were flown from Manhattan to Boston alone and perhaps half that number carried from Boston to Manhattan by a combined service of four lines. By this week approximately 60,000 Ibs. of express -serum, clothing, telephone repair apparatus, newspapers-and 57,000 Ibs. of mail had been flown into New England...
Railroads have met many a crisis in this manner, but never airlines. Ironic angle was that American Airlines, which last week showed the way for future interchange of air services, had only last year successfully opposed the plan of United Air Lines and Western Air Express to fly each other's equipment-United Mainliners from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles, W. A. E.'s ships to Chicago-as a convenience to passengers who otherwise had to be routed out of sleeper berths at unearthly hours to change planes. Reason: such a pooling would have let unfranchised United...
Meanwhile there was but little slackening in the flight of gold to the U. S., leading the New York Times to express a prime worry of monetary experts, what to do with it: "It is possible, of course, to sterilize the presence of gold, to keep it from forcing prices upward. . . . But nobody ever has found a way to sterilize the absence of gold. When a country [i. e., in Europe] has too little of the metal, its prices fall, bringing depression...