Word: overlander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Land of the Soviets, Russian world flying plane, reached Detroit last week with its four operators. They started, on their second attempt, from Moscow Aug. 23, flew across Siberia to the Aleutian Islands (U. S.), to the Alaskan mainland, down the Pacific Coast to Seattle, to San Francisco, then overland to Chicago, Detroit...
...similar trains), New York & Chicago, 20 hr.-$9.60. The American, New York & St. Louis, 24 hr.-$4.60. Congressional Limited, New York & Washington 4⅔ hr. - $1. Southern. Crescent Limited, New York & New Orleans, 36 hr.-$5. Illinois Central. Panama Limited, Chicago & New Orleans, 21 hr.-$5. Union Pacific. Overland Limited, Chicago & San Francisco, 58 hr.-$10. Santa Fe. The Chief, Chicago & Los Angeles, 58 hr.-$10. Southern Pacific. Cascade Limited, San Francisco & Portland, 27¾ hr.-$3. No extra fare is charged on the best trains operated by the Atlantic Coast Line or the Seaboard Air Line into Florida...
...shop superintendent who borrowed $4,300, bought an automobile and spent a winter taking it apart and putting it together again to see what made it go; John Willys, high pressure salesman, who cashed a personal check for $330 at a hotel to meet the pay roll of the Overland Co. so he would not lose his sales agency, and who almost at once became simultaneously president, treasurer, general manager, sales manager, and advertising manager of the nearly bankrupt company...
Elected. Linwood A. Miller, 44, first vice president of Willys-Overland Co., to be president, succeeding John North Willys, retired (TIME, July 22), who becomes board chairman...
Prosperous during the War, the company slumped in 1919, passed common dividends from 1920 to 1928. In 1928 prosperity had returned to the extent of $187,223,388 sales and a net income of $5,904,701. During the first quarter of 1929, Willys-Overland sold 92,000 cars, compared to 70,000 for first quarter...