Word: jans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Varney's Fare Sirs: In the issue of TIME, dated Jan. 25, under the heading of "Skylounges," you state that United Air Lines non-stop service between New York and Chicago is the world's first extra-fare plane service. You overlooked the fact that the Varney Speed Lines, which formerly operated Lockheed planes between San Francisco and Los Angeles, had an extra-fare service...
...Congress came to see me. . . . I said to him: 'John, I want to tell you something that is very personal to me- something that you have a right to hear from my own lips. I have a great ambition in life. . . . John, my ambition relates to Jan...
...could feel just what horrid thoughts my friend was thinking. So in order to relieve his anxiety, I went on to say: 'My great ambition on Jan. 20, 1941, is to turn over this desk and chair in the White House to my successor, whoever he may be, with the assurance that I am at the same time turning over to him as President, a nation intact. ... I want to get the nation as far along the road of progress as I can. I do not want to leave it to my successor in the condition in which Buchanan...
From this White Paper the House of Commons learned that in the year ending Jan. 1, 1937 unemployment was reduced by 30% in Scotland, the Tyneside and Durham areas; by 20% in South Wales and Monmouthshire; and in West Cumberland by 10%-a record supposed to vindicate His Majesty's Government on the do-nothing charge. Next the House of Commons was told last week that the ?2,000,000 ($10,000,000) recently given by Lord Nuffield ("Henry Ford of Great Britain") to succor the Depressed Areas and as a personal tribute to Stanley Baldwin (TIME, Jan...
Most notorious ship in the world last Jan. 6 was a blunt-nosed little Spanish freighter named Mar Cantabrico. With $720,000 worth of second-hand U. S. airplanes for Spain's hard-pressed Reds, she lolloped out of New York harbor and over the Three-Mile Limit only one hour before the House passed a bill making such shipments illegal. As she chugged off to Vera Cruz to pick up $1,300,000 more in munitions, disgruntled U. S. neutralityites opined that though she had passed the Scylla of Congress she might have greater difficulty avoiding the Charybdis...