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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Transport Industry's Size. Three-quarters of a billion dollars are now invested in the entire aviation industry. Forty-five companies are transporting mail, express and passengers over 75,000 miles daily. Last year they carried 52,934 passengers. This year the number will approximate 150,000. Only between San Francisco and Los Angeles and between New York and Boston do ships frequently have all passenger seats sold. Passenger traffic does not yet pay its way. Mail contracts, which represents the U. S. government's way of furnishing the transport companies their essential subsidies, almost pay the operating expenses...
...large room in a modest hotel on a Manhattan side street last week met a number of women and seven men. They sat at card-tables in groups of four. Of the women, who were between the ages of 25 and 55, some were dressed with the restraint of style that indicates expense and others had an air of neatly inadequate penury. But all were businesslike. Of the men, one caught first attention-a stoutish man in a pincenez, with a broad waistcoat crossed by a gold watch-chain, who spent most of his time standing beside a blackboard. This...
...National City director, retire from active banking. Able, dynamic, forceful Charles Edwin Mitchell, since 1921 National City head, will dominate the merged institution. So swiftly did Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Frew consummate the merger that even the rumormongers were taken by surprise. The Corn Exchange has the largest number of local branches (68) in the city...
...staff. Sao Paulo is an agricultural state in which nearly three-fourths of the world's coffee is grown; the climate is also favorable to animal life and because of this fact, several species of poisonous reptiles abound there. With the purpose in view of reducing the large number of fatalities resulting annually from snakebite the Instituto Butantan has a large group of herpetologists engaged in perfecting an anti-venin for snake bites. It was to this staff that Dr. Allen spoke...
...interview was Mlle. Keila's first in her two seasons, and she claimed that she was greatly excited. She apologized because the interview could not be held in her dressing room, as Mlle. Lezandre was costuming herself for the next number. The interview was therefore held in the wings, in a very noisy position. When asked if the audience could not hear the noise made backstage, she paused a moment while a member of the chorus and a scene-shifter had a slight verbal battle, in which terms were used hardly agreeable to Boston censorship. "Oh," said Mlle. Keila...