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...highly trained, matter-of-fact Pan American Airways crews, flights from such far-flung bases as Hong Kong, Lisbon and Barranquilla have become routine-no more glamorous than domestic airline operation from St. Louis or Camden...
...harried British troops scurried back across the Channel last week, leaving the Nazis in sight of the chalk cliffs of Dover, Britons all over the far-flung Empire looked anxiously to their arms. No exceptions, Canadians from the Yukon to the St. Lawrence eyed their slow-moving war-expansion program askance, clamored vociferously for action, still more action...
Many tourist camps spring up around filling stations, are built by home labor. Of the "better variety" camp, the American Automobile Association recognizes only 9,600, approves of no more than 3,200 as "first-rate tourist stops." These Ritzes of the far-flung industry prefer the name motor court to tourist camp (auxiliary name: motel), cater only to bona fide tourists. Typical of them is Pines Camp Cottages and Trailer Court in the outskirts of Valdosta, Ga., on U. S. Highway No. 41, no miles north of Jacksonville. Started 15 years ago by a former carnival showman and amusement...
Last week utility investors got a whiff of further equity offerings to come. Answering SEC's demand for an integration plan, far-flung Standard Gas & Electric announced "partial compliance." It proposed to sell control of its properties in California and the Northwest to holders of (and in exchange for) its own notes and debentures, thus freeing three subsidiaries, retiring part of its debt, reducing its own size. Last month SECommissioner Mathews accepted a job with the Standard Gas system because Standard's management had convinced him that it was trying to comply with the spirit of the Holding...
Granted, you're no house organ for any institutions or individuals which you may meet, and that you owe the citizens of Ohio and our far-flung graduate body (42,000, thousands of whom are your readers) no obligation to make them feel good by "constructive" writing. But it might be argued that you owe your subjects a fair break, and it certainly is argued that you owe your readers an honest and workmanlike job of reporting...