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...July 1945, Prescott had raised $87,000 from flyers, another $87,000 from businessmen. In Washington he had used his veteran's priority to buy a DPC-owned fleet of 14 surplus Conestoga twinengine cargo planes for $401,000 ($90,000 down). He promptly got most of his down payment back by selling six of them for a profit of $80,000. Then National Skyways Freight Corp. took...
...Lancaster, Pa., after clashes with club-swinging police, employes of the Conestoga Transportation Co. ended a strike that had tied up bus-trolley service for 26 days...
...Lancaster, Pa., broad-shouldered cops shouldered strikers out of the way when the Conestoga Transportation Co. tried to put trolleys back on the streets in an attempt to end a three-week-old walkout...
Best thing about Genesee Fever is the wealth of Carmer's authentic, affectionately painted regional period detail. He makes such dusty props as oiled-paper windows, Conestoga wagons and Liberty Poles as fresh as a glimpse at the youth of one's greatgrandparents; makes a succulent novelty of such frontier diet as pickerel, wild turkey, the bright yellow Indian corn...
While the historians and scholars pored over such museum pieces as wooden-wheeled Conestoga wagons (Pennsylvania-Dutch originals of the famed Western covered wagon) and hoary Kentucky rifles (which were manufactured by the Pennsylvania Dutch before the Kentuckians ever heard of them), Henry and George, all dressed up in store clothes, tried their best to enter into the spirit of things...