Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...punter and it was his 50-yard kick outside on the Rambler's 1-yard line which set the stage for Ingram's winning goal. He is one of Tom Hamilton's strongest defensive backs. Antrim, who has made several sensational pass catches this season, including two in the Pennsylvania game, is another excellent blocker and punter. On the defense he teams with Miller in backing up the line. Captain Morrell, the only three-year veteran on the first team, has been consistently outstanding in the line, as has DuBois, an Andover Academy graduate who will face several...
...winning Pennsylvania, the first Democratic President to do so since James Buchanan 80 years...
...blast. Out in the garage, press tickers clattered busily. The gloom which had hung over the Landon campaign train in all its travels about the country began to settle over the Landon parlor as the radio announcers kept shouting monotonously: "Roosevelt ahead in New York, Roosevelt has lead in Pennsylvania, Roosevelt has 2-to-1 lead in. . . ." As he had on his train, Alf Landon, smiling, joking, puffing at an old briar pipe, did his best to brighten things up. About 9 p. m. the Florists' Telegraph Association sent in a six-foot composition sunflower as tribute...
...April 1927 an open-cockpit plane belonging to one Clifford Ball carried the first pouch of airmail between Pittsburgh and Cleveland. In 1929 Clifford Ball Inc. extended operations to Washington, carried the first scheduled passengers across the Alleghenies. Year later the company was reorganized as Pennsylvania Airlines. In 1934 it lost its mail contract in Postmaster General Farley's celebrated blanket cancellation. Complying with changed requirements, it extended its lines to Detroit, sought a new contract, but was underbid by a brand-new concern named Central Airlines which began flying the same route. Pennsylvania then reorganized as Pennsylvania Airlines...
Since then, the Penn and Central lines have been bitter rivals. Central's chief asset was the mail contract from Detroit to Washington, Pennsylvania's the longer route with a mail contract between Detroit and Milwaukee. Central plumped for trimotored Stinsons, Pennsylvania for twin-motored Boeings. The battle involved rate cuts, protests to the Post Office and the I. C. C. Neither side won an advantage. Both thrived. In 1935 Pennsylvania's passenger traffic was 200% better than in 1934. This year the gain has been nearly as great. Central did equally well; August...