Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deposed six weeks ago as president of Seversky Aircraft Corp., volatile, hard-flying Major Alexander Procofieff de Seversky was kept on the payroll, last week was in Paris trying to sell airplanes. Meanwhile, the Seversky board, with six years of deficits behind it, met in Manhattan...
...When the heavy boot of the 1934 air mail purge kicked fledgling subsidiaries out of many a big U. S. airlines nest, Canadian Colonial, a retarded bird from the brood of Aviation Corp., was able to go on flapping up the Hudson on its 342-mile route between Manhattan and Montreal. Under indifferent management, unfavorable airline conditions, it grew slowly to be a pipsqueak goose and for a long time brought its 15,000 stockholders nothing but deficits...
Business began to pick up. Canadian Colonial set up its own shop, hired its own pilots. This spring Trans-Canada Airlines went into operation between Montreal and Vancouver, and Janas found himself operating the eastern U. S. link of an overnight run from Manhattan to British Columbia. Meanwhile, a modest advertising appropriation began to get Canadian Colonial its share of traffic between Manhattan and Montreal...
...Manhattan a cinemaddict stumbled drowsily into a taxi, mumbled "Juarez," took 40 winks. When he woke, Driver William Lysaght was tooling through Philadelphia, hell-bent for Juarez, Mexico. The sleeper's expenses: taxi fare: $40.35; two useless theatre tickets...
...trade-union organizer in a Southern coal strike (resembling that of Harlan County in 1931). When two deputies are shot, mass arrests hit both the Red union and its rival. Glenn, who is nearly killed by vigilantes, urges a united-front defense. But Comrade Silverstone, of Manhattan, sneers: "There's too much of the artist in you, Sandy." Silverstone says they will take care of their own comrades, let the others, who are "politically undeveloped," take care of themselves. Their own comrades get 20 years, are shot trying to escape. Few days later the Party changes its line, decides...