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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When passenger of the foot hove in sight, tootle the born. Trumpet melodiously at first. Then tootle with vigor, and express by word of mouth the warning...
...Manhattan air men last week reported that a Mid-Continent Air Express was being organized to operate between Chicago and New Orleans. They said that President Harris M. Hanshue of Fokker Aircraft Corp. was back of the project; also Chairman James Talbot of Richfield Oil Co., Western Air Express and Fokker. Supposedly Mid-Continent would tie up with Western and Standard Air Lines...
William Edward Boeing, 47, founded Boeing and soon bought control of Pacific. He entered the transport business to make money out of mail, express and passenger carriage, but more especially to have sure buyers of the planes he was making at Seattle. He got into plane-making literally by accident. One day in 1917 he grew angry because his private plane cracked up with him. He decided that he could build better ones. A rich lumber and mining man, he could and did put vast wealth into the industry. His factory is now rated the largest...
said he: "I think it will be best if I do not serve on any of the juries in the future, since my business is lecturing on modern books, and naturally I have preferences which I must leave myself free to express." It was the second such reversal. For the 1921 novel prize, the board chose Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence after the Committee had recommended Sinclair Lewis' Main Street...
Then something happened. A rose bush was discovered where tulips should have been. Caretaker Grant lost his temper, the young man lost his job. And next night travelers Manhattan-bound on the State of Maine Express watched a young man, dark-eyed, keenly alert, chew a pencil, write many a word on many a piece of yellow paper. Soon in the Daily Mirror appeared a romantic piece about a "honeymoon nest." It purported to tell of the place where Anne Spencer Morrow, spinster, and Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, bachelor, will spend their first wedded days. And such a piece David...