Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...express rates were arranged last week. President Cowie thought the minimum charge would be $1. (Air mail charge is ten cents for each half ounce regardless of distance...
President Robert E. M. Cowie of the American Railway Express Co. last week announced the fulfillment of the promise that he made two years ago when the Federal air mail service was organized?that his company would accept the services of the first reliable company equipped to handle express by air. On Sept. 1, the American Railway Express Co. will start shipping packages on a 32½ -hour air express schedule between Manhattan and San Francisco. Intermediate stops for delivery and receipt of goods have been set for Cleveland, Chicago, Iowa City, Des Moines, Omaha, North Platte (Neb.), Cheyenne, Salt Lake...
...case of ordinary express, for which the American Railway Express Co. does not own its express cars but rents their use from the railways, so the company has hired the transportation services of the National Air Transport Co. between Manhattan and Chicago (and later between Chicago and Dallas, Tex.) and the Boeing Air Transport Co. between Chicago and San Francisco. An auxiliary air express service between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles will use Western Air Express...
...English country doctor complained thus to the London Daily Express of a brazenness such as every U. S. physician has encountered: "Often while I drive to or from a case I happen to come to the scene of a road accident in which frequently someone is more or less injured. Naturally, being a physician, usually known to someone in the attending group, frequently a policeman, I am asked to give assistance. Over and over again I have treated and bandaged a victim, carried him off in my car, or had him conveyed to the nearest hospital. I have attended...
...finished Clare? Afraid you can't have any more time today.' I experienced all the pangs of thwarted ambition, denial in che midst of white hot creation, death in the midst of life, and could have wept." The many assurances of Author Cameron's eagerness to express herself arouse the suspicion that she would have done better to curb her eagerness until she was eager to express more than her eagerness to express herself...