Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Western Air Express, having terminals in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City. and soon to establish a line Eastward to Kansas City, provide comfortable limousines for their passengers between the airports and the down town business districts. We also, incidentally, provide a luncheon for the passengers on the plane, all of which is without extra charge. I hope some day you will have the opportunity of riding on the "Model Airline of the World," operated by Western Air Express between San Francisco and Los Angeles...
JULIUS KAHN, JR. District Passenger Agent Western Air Express, San Francisco, Calif...
...possible for an air traveler to fly completely around the country for an average cost of 9? per mile. The longest air line and at present the only transcontinental one is the Boeing Air Transport. Its Chicago-San Francisco run is 1,943 mi. Its nearest overland competitor is Pacific Air Transport's Seattle-Los Angeles...
...Thomas J. Mooncy and Warren K. Billings, trade-unionists, were accused and convicted of murder after a bomb which killed ten, had been thrown into a San Francisco "Preparedness" parade. Later evidence seemed to prove them not guilty. Their judge and nine of their ten living jurors have since declared them guiltless. California has not reconsidered their case, which is now before Governor C. C. Young for a pardon. To propagandize in their favor a national "Mooney-Billings Committee" has been formed. Among its members are: Harry Elmer Barnes, Clarence Darrow, John Dewey, Glenn Frank, Alexander Meiklejohn, H. L. Mencken...
...former friend in the office of Mr. Hearst's Detroit Times. Colonel Knox suggested that square-jawed Banker Guck come into the Hearst fold. Banker Guck agreed. After six months of learning Hearst methods on the New York Evening Journal, Newspaperman Guck was sent to San Francisco to general-manage the Hearst Examiner there. Now he is considered ready and able to represent the Hearst interests in Chicago, fabulous city of world's fairs, gang-wars, tallest buildings, youngest university presidents, blatant mayors, model department stores, bursting progress. Having made a mark on both edges of the continent...