Word: swivels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donald Douglas' big baby, but three years ago it was a gleam in another man's eye. William A. Patterson, president of United Air Lines, is a small man, quick-moving, quick-witted. In his Chicago office his papers heap two desks. Between the desks, in a swivel chair with well-oiled casters, Mr. Patterson shuttles back & forth. What has made the papers so many and the shuttling so nervous was a bad situation and a good idea. The bad situation: the wasteful competition between U. S. airlines, particularly in independently developing expensive experimental planes, then all investing...
Many a U. S. businessman, dreaming in his swivel chair, has gone a-voyaging to the South Seas. But few are the voyages that have not been abruptly terminated by the jangle of a telephone. Alfred Thornton Baker of Princeton, N. J. is one businessman who not only dreamed...
...nice goin', swivel hips...
...first, Hull, carries more personal prestige than any man in the administration. He is, however, past sixty; and may see his last days from the swivel chair of the Supreme Court bench. Wallace has dropped from the headlines of late but he has been quietly acquiring political knowledge, and, even more valuable, political friendships. He will bear watching, for the West is coming into its own and Henry Wallace has become dear to the farmer's hearts. Earle, by birth and rearing a political carbon copy of Roosevelt, has neither the former's personality, ability nor integrity. His labor record...
...transport history with three distinct classes of travel corresponding to railroad sleepers, chair-cars and day-coaches. As of May 1, the basic transcontinental fare will be $149.95.* This will buy a seat in a standard DC2 or DC-3. An extra fare of $4 will buy a swivel chair in a deluxe DC-3, while $8 will buy a berth. For shorter flights the extra fares will be less. Holders of scrip tickets will still get a 15% reduction...