Word: sleepers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demonstration was in the nature of a release for U. S. commercial use. United Airlines, which sets as much store by Pratt & Whitney power plants as American Airlines does by the famed Wright Cyclones, has ordered 26 of the 1830's for its fleet of 24-passenger Douglas sleeper planes (TIME, March...
...wind seems to blow in all directions at once, the sky is usually spattered with flights of birds, and people pursue their business or pleasure with bounce and intensity in the paintings of Doris (''Doric") Emrick Lee. Even a sleeper sleeps so soundly that he looks dead, and a woman threading a sewing machine is obviously incapable of fatigue. When young Mrs. Lee's bustling kitchen scene, Thanksgiving, was awarded the Chicago Art Institute's $500 Logan prize last autumn, Mrs. Frank Logan pointed her finger in scorn, called it an "awful thing'' (TIME...
Leading female roles are played by Donald C. Sleeper '38 and Edward H. Turner '36, while Daniel F. Keyes '38 and Verner E. Kelley '37 are taking the major male parts. Timothy J. Reardon '38 portrays the part of "Flywheel," a Grouche Marx sort of character...
...wing monoplanes became dominant in U. S. air transport, United Air Lines has steadily patronized Boeing, while its rivals, American and TWAirlines, have done most of their buying from Douglas. Last week United also became a patron of Douglas by ordering ten of the huge, 24-passenger Douglas Sleeper Transports (DST), of which American already has 20 on the way. Price...
...nation in trains now pays $32.70 for a day-coach ticket or $41.70 in a Pullman from New York to Chicago. According to the new rates, he will pay only $18.17 in a coach or $27.24 in a Pullman. To ride from Chicago to St. Louis in a sleeper will cost not $11.17 but $8.83. A day coach next afternoon to Indianapolis will cost $5.04 instead...