Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With six passengers and crew of three, T. W. A.'s 14-seat, twin-motor, Douglas DC 2 took off at 6:30 one evening from San Francisco to Winslow, Ariz. It turned south to Los Angeles when it encountered the rains that later washed out over 5,500 homes, 200 lives (see p. 16). On course and on time the big 18,560-lb. ship droned over Fresno, rose to 10,000 ft. to top rugged Tehachapi Mts. Ice began forming on the plane's wings. So about 8:30 p. m. Pilot John Dunbar Graves...
...investigation. Hearings ended last summer and last week the Federal Communications Commission report was in the hands of Chairman Frank R. McNinch, almost ready to be submitted to Congress. Therefore, in making his annual report last week, A. T. & T. President Walter S. Gifford took care to get his word in first. "This country," observed Mr. Gifford, "is entitled in good times and bad to the best possible telephone service at the lowest possible cost." Referring to the FCC report: Said he: "This investigation . . . has been one-sided throughout. The company was denied not only the right to cross-examine...
...largest U. S. plaster maker and one of the largest concerns in the building industry is U. S. Gypsum Co. and last week in the annual meeting of Gypsum stockholders, Chairman Sewell L. Avery took occasion to crack back at Franklin Roosevelt. Reading TIME'S account of the President's lecture aloud to some 50 Gypsum stockholders assembled in Chicago, Chairman Avery declared that Franklin Roosevelt had been misleading in his comparison of 1938 with 1929. In 1929, said Mr. Avery, plaster prices were drastically low because of a savage price war. Today Gypsum's average prices...
...incongruously with the playfully erudite, wambling columns of Christopher Morley, its mildly suggestive personal ads with a weekly puzzle. The leading national book-review weekly, its eminence was made less impressive by the fact that it was the only one in the field. Although now & then the Saturday Review took a flyer in an extended literary appraisal, with articles by Critic John Chamberlain, H. L. Mencken, Van Wyck Brooks, as a rule its 21,000 readers could expect: ten or twelve pages of reviews each week; a yes & no editorial about the book clubs, best sellers, proletarian novels, modern poetry...
...another front, some H. S. U. members took part in an anti-Nazi demonstration in front of the German consulate on State and Bond Streets in Boston Saturday noon. They flashed placards reading "Get out of Austria. Stop persecution, Quarantine the aggressor, Hitler" while they shouted for the downfall of the German leader...