Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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American Airlines furnished Jones with his gas (twelve times the normal load), oil, food, hotel suite, weather and compass course. Jones furnished American Airlines with good publicity for its southern low altitude route across country. Like the misdirected Douglas Corrigan, Jones during his return to Los Angeles will exhibit himself and his plane at airfields which dot the American Airlines route. He will probably sell a lot more Aeroncas when he gets home, having proved that, with a pilot at the stick who doesn't need much sleep, baby ships need not be confined to the environs of their...
...means of settling this and other questions, 1,300 Methodists gathered in Nashville, Tenn. for the largest banquet the city had ever seen. It was the first time the three branches of Methodism had met officially since the Methodist Protestants split off in 1828 (over lay representation) and the Southern Methodists broke away in 1845 (over slavery). Two Negro Methodist bishops sat among the banquet guests of honor. No Southerner complained...
Rose Bowl. Biggest portion of gravy is in the Rose Bowl. Chosen to share this year's gate receipts (about $300,000 split three ways among the contestants and the sponsor) are Southern California and Duke University. Last week Southern California made this game trebly exciting by outplaying Notre Dame...
Charles Holmes Herty's 1933 proof that newsprint could be made out of Southern slash pine excited Southern publishers: with slash pine growing like weeds in the South, they ought to get their newsprint a lot cheaper than the $42.50 a ton then charged by the Canadian and Northern U. S. manufacturers. (Current price: $48 to $50.) When a Southern lumberman named Ernest Lynn Kurth announced early in 1937 that he would build the South's first newsprint plant at Lufkin, Texas, the publishers were even more excited. But though kraft paper factories were fast becoming the South...
Last week Promoter Kurth's Southland Paper Mills Inc. finally found its money. Of the $5,000,000 needed to build the plant, RFC put up $3,425,000. The rest will be raised by stock sales, Yankees not barred. Southern publishers contributed $429,000 in capital, signed for 250,000 tons of newsprint...