Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Maine to California the Railway Express Agency is reaching out its efficient tentacles to pick up hundreds of trunks, bags and boxes at the homes of students preparatory to depositing them inside the doors of several hundred dormitory rooms in Cambridge...
...Railway Express facilities in a college town are taxed with two peak load periods, the incoming in September and the exodus in June, but the reserve power of a National Organization is such that the smooth functioning of the home to room service is unimpaired in efficiency...
...House Post Office Committee: "Our line feels that air service will supplement steamship service routes and make it possible to discontinue the construction of large, expensive boats. The practice of the future will be to construct combination passenger and freight boats, but to carry by airplane first-class mail, express matter and the passenger who is in a hurry. . . . I hold no brief against Pan American Airways. . . . The service which they propose for Europe will serve Atlantic ports of Europe and England, whereas we will serve Mediterranean and Black Sea ports...
...Dealers, Senators Black* of Alabama and Bilbo of Mississippi, who have to do a lot of interpreting of their liberalism when they get back home, sought to soothe their farmer constituents by doing something now. They trotted around petitioning for a special Congressional session in October for the express purpose of enacting a farm bill. Calling a special session is strictly the prerogative of the President but it was understood that Mr. Roosevelt did not object to the petition. He cared not whether his comprehensive farm legislation (ever-normal granary, etc.) is enacted now, in October or early in January...
...hostesses, having shown so much desirable experience that they were allowed to skip training school, were already at work last week on New Haven dining cars-four on the Merchant's Limited, one on the Bay Stater, one on the 4 p. m. (E.D.S.T.) express from Boston to Pittsburgh. They are paid $30 weekly plus meals while on duty, work six days a week, live in women's hotels specified by Superintendent Quinlan at each end of the line...