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...fourth transcontinental airline last week. Northwest Airlines got permission from the Civil Aeronautics Board to extend its present route, from Seattle to Milwaukee, all the way to New York, via Detroit. But Northwest's tough, ambitious president, Croil Hunter, 51, will not be able to bite his plum till he can get some six or seven more planes-probably DC-3s at first-to fly the new route. As other transcontinental routes are overloaded, Hunter hopes that this will not take long...
Cornucopia. In Yakima. Wash., Messrs. Lemon and Cherry arranged to sell the Plum Apartments on West Chestnut Street to an apple grower from Cherry Hill...
...Truman was redding up her rambling, 80-year-old home at 219 North Delaware St. in Independence. At 4:30 p.m. next day the visitors began arriving, passing through the front porch and the tile-floored vestibule, over the well-worn, plum-colored rug in the Victorian living room, out onto the spacious back lawn. Underneath a rose arbor the Senator, in an ice-cream-colored linen suit, shook hands at least 3,000 times, flatteringly remembering many a first name. At nightfall people were still coming; lights were strung over the arbor and the reception went...
...deal:* 1) gave Twentieth Century producing facilities in Britain which it lacked; 2) granted Rank a plum he has long sought-distributing facilities in the U.S., through Twentieth Century, for his British films. In addition, Twentieth Century and Rank will team up on two to four big-budget pictures this year (cost: $1,000,000 each) and will boost this to eight after...
...room hewn from the bowels of the earth and lined with woodwork, Tito offered us a welcome Slivovic (strong Yugoslav plum brandy) and American cigarets...