Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...except for printing it and charging people for it, and that excluding radio from the press galleries was in effect giving special privilege to the printing trades. In the Senate New Jersey's Barbour and Iowa's Gillette, and in the House New Mexico's Jack Dempsey pressed his case. By last week both Rules Committees had decreed that henceforth radio should have "equal facilities" for covering Congress. Last week workmen began making part of the House visitors' gallery a radio gallery, and in the Senate the Rules Committee pondered whether to put radio right...
Twelve years ago burly Pilot Jack Frye and chunky Pilot Paul Richter started an airline between Los Angeles and Tucson. Today Frye is president, Richter vice president of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., one of the nation's big four domestic airlines. As pilot of this big business, 35-year-old Jack Frye no longer has time to try for the transcontinental record he once held, but he still spends many an hour in the cockpit. Says he: "It's the best way I know of to clear the cobwebs from the brain...
...year T. W. A. made $205,000 and its stockclimbed to $27.50. But in 1937 T.W.A. lost $959,000, in 1938 $773,000. Its stock dropped to $4, was last week at $8 when Lehman Bros, announced with an audible sigh of relief that it had sold out to Jack Frye and Paul Richter...
Last week Jack Frye and Paul Richter said they had big plans for expansion. But Wall Street and the world of aviation was more interested in how two up-from-the-ranks pilots financed the purchase of the 70,000 shares Lehman Bros, sold them. Jack Frye refused to tell. Rumors dwelt on Millionaire Howard Hughes and Cinema Agent Leland Hayward, who last month became a T. W. A. director...
Both Cordingley and Graves, playing one and two respectively, scored in their singles matches and paired together to win their best-ball foursome match. Jack Barr and Henry Thompson duplicated this performance at three and four but Watty Dickerman and Don Elbel fared not as well in the last two positions, losing all three of their points...