Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great U. S. communications companies besides I. T. & T. are Western Union and A. T. & T. The great dream of business matchmakers and romantics begins with the nuptials of the two great T. & T.'s. In their imagination the romantics can already see the ceremony with two handsome groomsmen. Sosthenes Behn, tall, dark, native of the Virgin Islands, and Walter Sherman Gifford, slender, reserved, native of Salem, Mass. It is Mr. Gifford, although only 44, three years Col. Behn's junior, whom they see as godfather and president of the monster offspring, if and when born...
Last week at Los Angeles, Mrs. Alexander Pantages, wife of the western theatrical chain man, was charged with murder for killing a man while drunk and driving her motor...
Strong is Southern Pacific's position and large its earnings, yet in its position is one bearish item. Like other western roads, the Southern Pacific has watched with growing concern the increase of traffic through the Panama Canal. When transcontinental railroads were first built the driving of a golden spike was the final ceremonial of their completion. But the real gold spike was Cape Horn. Freighters could not compete with freight trains as long as freighters had to wallow around the Horn. But the opening of the Panama Canal furnished a short water route from U. S. coast-to-coast...
...Author Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (TIME, June 17) so similar is Author Renn's War that comparisons of the two will be inevitable...
...Western Air Express (Western Air, in connection with New York Central, Santa Fe and Chicago & Alton railroads has announced a 46-hour coast-to-coast air-rail service. It carried 13,102,715 pieces of mail and 7,880 passengers during the first six months of 1929. Chief mail route is Los Angeles to Salt Lake City [664 miles]. Chief passenger route is Los Angeles to Kansas City. Passengers ride in 12-passenger Fokkers. Net income, first quarter $ 320,000 Net income, entire year...