Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outlined in our 1931 report we show men how to relate past interests to possible future interests. This we believe will, in most cases, actually hitch their abilities to an occupation appropriate to them. But in any case enthusiasm will often overcome the absence of ideal abilities." Augustus L. Putnam...
Amelia Earhart Putnam and Paul Collins, who formerly helped operate Ludington Lines between New York and Washington, made a deal last August with Boston & Maine Railroad. The railroad opened an airline between Boston, Portland and Bangor, Me., hired Mrs. Putnam and Mr. Collins to run it for them as National Airways Inc. The company thrived well enough to interest the neighboring Maine Central Railroad and Central Vermont Railway which run into New Hampshire and Vermont. The difficulty of surface travel made air service logical, but would there be enough patronage? National Airways hit upon a simple scheme. Let local boosters...
...many problems which face the college student, none is more important, or is attended with more perplexities than that of choosing a life work. The University recognized the importance and difficulty of this problem when it established the office of Consultant on Careers. The present Consultant, Mr. A. L. Putnam, has assumed a sympathetic, interested attitude, and has acquitted himself well enough of his particular job, but the very serious objection has been advanced that the type of service which he offers covers but half the problem of choosing a career, and that by far the less important half...
...admission by Harry B. Putnam, chairman of the state liquor control committee, that a twenty-one year age limit upon the sale of intoxicating liquor will almost certainly be embodied in the legislation now being framed is discouraging to those who had hoped for the drafting of a sane law. Although the feeling of the Committee in general is favorable to an eighteen-year age limit, it confesses at the same time that the older limit must be adopted in order to placate the drys, and for no other reason...
...have collaborated with airlines (e. g. Pennsylvania and Santa Fe with T. A. T.. New York Central with American Airways), but Boston & Maine is the first to establish air service of its own. The road contracted with an outside company newly formed by Paul Collins and Amelia Earhart Putnam who were executives in defunct Ludington Lines (New York-Philadelphia-Washington), to operate the airline. The railroad pockets all revenue, pays the operators a flat sum per mile...