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...exploded Executive Vice President John Elliot Slater, jumpy as a terrier. He hollered: "We've got it!" American Export had got CAA per mission to go into the U. S. transatlantic air trade, hitherto the monopoly of vast, pioneering Pan American Airways. For more than a year the upstart air line (TIME, April 29) had lazed along, thinking up tasks for its skeleton staff: daily weather maps for its meteorologists to chart, constant checking and rechecking of its only plane - a Consolidated 28, which had already made some experimental hops to Europe. Now it could stop the make-believe...
...were just under 100,000,000 barrels, about 20,000,000 more than the trade thinks they ought to be. Consequence: No. 1 U. S. oil producer, Texas, last week ordered crude-oil production prorated down 219,000 barrels a day. To complicate the readjustment, the No. 3 producer, upstart, unregulated Illinois, continued to help offset Texas' curtailment by raising production...
...campaign headquarters are in my hat. Be sure to put it down that I'm having a swell time." Talking all the way, followed by a curious crowd, he strode down Broad St. until he reached convention headquarters at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. There, in the lobby, the upstart Presidential candidate was almost mobbed...
...redeemed himself, and his ailing, 80-year-old owner sat in his box with tears in his eyes. Leading from start to finish, he floated away from his rivals, finished two lengths ahead of Charles S. Howard's Mioland, three ahead of Ethel Mars's Gallahadion, the upstart who had humbled him in the Derby...
...woman the California Athletic Commission considers capable of refereeing boxing matches is wiry, 45-year-old Belle Martell. No upstart, Belle Martell has been in the boxing business for ten years-ever since her husband. Art Martell, onetime Australian lightweight champion, hired an old barn near Los Angeles (on the ranch of onetime World's Champion Jim Jeffries), started putting on amateur boxing shows...