Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sidney Arthur Alexander, the Cathedral's venerable Canon and treasurer, broke the news that St. Paul's had shifted one-third of an inch during his 36 years in office. No man to miss such an item, the Daily Express's famed "Beachcomber" observed: "St. Paul's Cathedral is bitten by the fashionable bug of perpetual fidgeting, and is unable to remain still any longer. . . . It is due to crash into the Daily Express building in February 236,481 A.D. unless the Daily Express, feeling itself pursued, takes to its heels and crawls up the Strand...
From there on. American Express expects to take care of them. Its smoothly functioning Paris office has already conducted over 200,000 G.I.s on tours of Paris and the French Riviera. The famed office at 11 Rue Scribe (which in prewar years thought nothing of distributing 21,000 letters a day to American tourists) is again operating, though partly occupied by the Army...
...outlook for European travel brightened last week. The American Express Co., which for 30 years has shepherded U.S. citizens in & out of the cities and art galleries of Europe, announced that it now has 17 European offices operating again. More important, the U.S. State Department lent a hand to U.S. businessmen, Paris-bound on business...
Surprisingly, American Express profits soared during the war. Last year's net of $2.4 million was better than in any prewar year except 1929. Though 34 of its 59 pre war foreign offices were closed, and civil ian travel dropped out of sight, American Express was busy arranging trips for thou sands of globe-trotting officials connected with OWI, RFC, the Navy, and other Government agencies...
...biggest profits came from the boom in the sale of money orders and travelers' checks sold to essential travel ers, and to servicemen and their families. This year all classes of business done by the American Express Co. may reach $1 billion...