Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McAdoo plane cost $18,500. Mr. McAdoo can well afford it. He has long been rich. His law fees continually make him richer. For a merger which he is now bringing about he will get one more million dollars. After the 1920 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco and a decision that he was through with politics, the Bank of Italy retained him as lawyer at $50,000 a year, on condition that he desist from politics. His Presidential ambitions cost him that job when he stalemated the 1924 Democratic Convention at Manhattan. He still has his western law office...
...each of the cities mentioned Airman-Lawyer McAdoo has leading citizens lined up, or about to be lined up, to speed his project through. Southern Skylines will compete mainly with Transcontinental Air Transport...
...McAdoo has also in contemplation an Atlantic coastal line: New York-Washington-Richmond-Raleigh-Columbia-Augusta-Savannah-Jacksonville''-Miami. The cities between Washington and Jacksonville are not yet on even an air mail line. Pitcairn Aviation's mail planes go slightly west, through Atlanta...
...McAdoo is just now cake-walking into aviation, he explained last week: "We're in a new era now. The rail-road boys must hustle to keep up. I ought to know." (He was War director of U. S. railways...
...McAdoo (née Eleanor Randolph Wilson) absolutely refuses to fly. Last week she sailed for Europe. Her "Mac" will follow in a month, after he sets up Southern Skylines' capital structure...