Word: tex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fare from Los Angeles to Mexico City on L. A. O. is $105. Mr. Varney hopes to get a mail contract from the Mexican Government. To date, that concession has been the monopoly of Pan American Airways, which flies the Mexican mail from the capital to Brownsville. Tex. and Miami, and, through an affiliate, to El Paso and Nogales. Mr. Varney believes he can shoulder Pan American aside if he has the right politicians working for him. If he does, it will be a man-sized job. for Pan American is so deeply intrenched at home and in 32 other...
Just over the border in Del Rio, Tex. suave, goateed Dr. Brinkley kept calm. Hurrying his lawyer off to Mexico City he boasted that he would be back on the air in a few days...
Fort Sam Houston, Tex., Feb. 28--Major William C. Ocker, Army's oldest pilot in point of service and a pioneer inventor of flying devices, pleaded not guilty today at his general court-martial on charges he "cussed out" a superior officer...
...year, working as a grocer's clerk, joining a fire company to get a free bed. At 53 he was making nearly $100,000 a year and had been groomed for the Presidency. At 27 he was manager, cashier, janitor and night watchman of a bank at Malone, Tex. (pop. 150) where he slept on a cot in the corridor. At 47 he was president of Chicago's second biggest bank, the First National (present assets $643,000,000), and lived in a 14-room house on Barry Ave. All Mel Traylor carried from a crude Kentucky boyhood...
...days later in Sherman, Tex., Federal Judge Randolph Bryant ruled that the oil code could not be applied to non-signers or to solely intrastate operators. Announcing that the Government would appeal, Charles I. Francis, special Assistant U. S. Attorney General and the Department of the Interior's representative in the East Texas fields, declared: "As far as the Federal Government is concerned oil regulation is wrecked...