Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republic) has nothing, except its title, in common with Meredith Nicholson's 1905 best seller. It is a spy melodrama of the old school, concerning code letters, the Simplon Express, diplomats in Geneva and a beautiful dancer (Rosita Moreno) who gives her admirers knockout drops. The courier (Phillips Holmes) whose job is to deliver a message on which the peace of Europe depends, succeeds in doing so, aided by a young female tourist (Mae Clarke) and not too seriously hampered by the head of the spy ring (Irving Pichel...
Cost for the first plane, due next spring, is $500,000, for subsequent ships $250,000. By shouldering this sum jointly, the "Big Five" claim they are saving three-quarters of development expense. By creating such a fleet of supertransports, they expect to jack their passenger and express business into the black, rid themselves forever of the inconvenience of their present dependence upon Government mail subsidies...
Each major U.S. airline has some exclusive quality to boast about. TWA calls itself the "Lindbergh Line." American brags it is "the largest airline in the U.S." United is proud of carrying more passengers, mail and express than any other airline in the world. Last week United had something else to be proud of: Its statement for 1935 showed that it almost made some money...
Passengers carried* 361,370 860,761 Express carried...
Despite the 50% rise in passenger and express business, American Airlines, largest U.S. air transport operator, last week announced it was losing $758,000 a year. Declaring that the present 33⅓?-a-mile mail pay rate is not sufficient, it petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission for an immediate increase, retroactive to March 1, 1935, on six of its routes, announced the only alternative is to go out of business...