Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty-nine House Republicans-all first or second-termers-joined in a broadside last week which stated that the present GOP House leadership does not necessarily speak for them. "Every member of Congress," they said, "has a right and duty to express himself with entire freedom." That was what they proposed to do in the future...
...Benton, who does know how to drink-and who once exhibited a $12,000 saloon nude in Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe-set his own ambition: "All you can do is express your own locality, and, if you can do that well, your art will become universal...
Down too went its transatlantic air-express rates, from $2.02 per pound to $1.17. Pan Am also shaved passenger rates on the New York -Lisbon run and on many a Latin American route. Signifi cantly, the drop in rates was greatest -as on the Atlantic routes - where the competition was keenest. Having sunk its knife deep into the hides of competitors, Pan Am then gave it a turn. Said Pan Am: when it gets its new planes now on order (see below) it plans to cut rates again...
Despite ample warning, Pan Am's competitors were caught with their rates up. American Overseas Airlines went on charging $572. Britain's BOAC charges $647 one way, $1,299 round trip. But the American Express Co. was on its toes. On the basis of the new fares, it offered a two-week, all expense air tour of Europe next summer. Price...
...express my admiration and gratitude to a country which produces in its rank & file such an innate sense of human decency that it can handle military formality and extend a generous friendliness even to strangers...