Word: parentally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important money to improve a passenger service on which it lost $20 million in the seven years from 1934 through 1940. The Long Island states its case with complete candor. Its open books show that the railroad has avoided bankruptcy only through credits totaling $9.3 million from its rich parent, the Pennsylvania. Thus the promise of Utopian commuter service on the 364-mile Long Island is hedged with two provisos: 1) a 20% fare increase for 55 million commuters, which White recommended; 2) easing of the crushing property taxes levied against the railroad by local governments and used in part...
...parent who works for the Air Transport Command: his soldier son was prevented by military duties from appearing to say that Schweitzer was the best teacher he ever...
...Jersey's Commissioner of Education Charles Herbert Elliott forbade Milltown to give denominational teaching in its only grammar school during school hours. His decision that such teaching would be unconstitutional was buttressed by one parent who wrote: "I don't want [my daughter] to go to school to be taught to be a Roman Catholic or Protestant, but I do expect her to receive character education every hour of every day she is in school...
...deal between Matson and Pan American Airways (for whom Matson acts as Pacific agents) whereby Matson and Pan Am would be equal partners in a new company furnishing peacetime air transport over the Pacific from the U.S. CAB which recently ordered American Export Airlines to divorce itself from its parent shipping company, is opposed to the ownership of airlines by carriers...
...troops had one waiting for President Roosevelt at Casablanca. Everywhere the tough, square, squat jeeps are bouncing the backsides of the United Nations. Potentates and savages ride jeeps; soldiers regard them fondly, pat their rugged sides. But the fondest pats of all come from Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., foster parent of the jeep. To Willys the jeep is a plug-ugly duckling who laid a golden...