Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read the future of private U. S. airmail operations, Mr. Varney has turned his attention one Republic south. One night last week a Lockheed Orion of his new Lineas Aereas Occidentals roared into Los Angeles, completing its first 1,700-mi. trip from Mexico City in 10 hr. Lineas Aereas Occidentales (Western Air Lines) will operate three planes a week over the route with five Orions used on Varney Speed Lines (Los Angeles-San Francisco...
...wind blasted the overhead cables from the pantographs of the New York, New Haven & Hartford trains. Service between Boston and New York was from one to 14 hr. late. The New Haven's stranded passengers were no worse off than President John Jeremiah Pelley, marooned in his office car at Devon, Conn. With him was a party of railway officials who had been attending a conference in Boston. After waiting four hours for the line to clear to New York, President Pelley & friends turned back to New Haven...
...Long Island, with a two-ft. fall, the storm was no carbon copy. The Long Island Railroad completely broke down. Service beyond Jamaica was erratic for 48 hr. Much of the area was without milk and meat deliveries for two days...
...house. A young woman was dragged unconscious, half frozen, from a snow heap half a mile from her home. Electric wires were dead. . . . Telephone wires were useless. Taxicabs and private automobiles stayed in their garages or stuck in the snow. . . . For the better part of 24 hr. no help could be had, for love or money, in case of fire or serious illness...
...there was little jubilation in the Press last week. The President, vexed by the whole irksome business, had spanked the publishers on three tender spots, 1) He "requested" big newspapers in big cities to put reporters on a five day, 40 hr. week; 2) he "ordered" a new report on child labor (newsboys); 3) he laughed off the Freedom of Press clause as having "no more place [in the code] than would the recitation of the whole Constitution or the Ten Commandments. . . . The freedom guaranteed by the Constitution is a freedom of expression and that will be scrupulously respected...