Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purchasers' bids on the two airmail routes which remain under Federal ownership-the 2,665-mile stretch from New York to San Francisco, the 796-mile overnight route between Chicago and New York. It had never been the Government's intention to conduct these services permanently. Fourteen other routes, totaling 5,553 miles one way, had been opened by the Government and all turned over to private contractors. Now Mr. New judged commercial aviation to be strong enough, and the feasibility, the practicability of airmail carrying to be "adequately demonstrated," for private contractors to relieve the Post Office...
...Fourteen hundred firms, including those selling accessories, were represented, nearly four hundred more than were displayed at the record salon of 1924.* Twenty U. S. firms had exhibits. In the crowded auditorium were famed Presidents Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors, H. H. Bassett of Buick, Lawrence C. Fisher of Cadillac, Myron E. Forbes of Pierce-Arrow, moving warily through the throngs, surveying their displays with a just pride...
...accept the commission in the Naval Reserve after qualifying. The opening of the program in the fall of 1926 will be restricted to about sixty students of the Freshman class in the College and Engineering School; these students must be citizens of the United States and must be over fourteen years...
...Harry Gordon Selfridge, Wisconsin born, became a member of Marshall Field & Co. in Chicago. Fourteen years later, after he had shown himself a great department store executive, had become general manager of and partner in his firm, he retired from business...
...tenth of the total British population. This is their fifteenth week without wages. Every kind of trade union resource is exhausted. There are whole areas where $2 a week is all a woman gets to keep her entire home going. "No relief is given to men, to boys over fourteen, or to children under twelve months. Private resources have helped, but now we are faced with a condition that makes it simply necessary to appeal abroad. We have appealed to Europe, and now we are appealing to America...