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...Although rummy and solitaire are slightly better known, bridge is played most often. Among both auction and contract players questioned, 41% play once a week or oftener, another 16% play once a fortnight...
...Among children, adult games like contract, auction and pinochle are nearly as popular as pig, pounce and old maid...
...usual form of contract between a network and an affiliated station provides that the network may cancel the contract on one year's notice, but the station must live up to the full five-year period...
...business (done with Huff-Daland Dusters and other hedgehoppers) to ferry passengers between Dallas and Birmingham. For 16 months it looked like a good switch: passengers were more lucrative than insecticides, and safer. But in October 1930, postal officials pushed him off the airline map, gave a fat mail contract to rival American Airlines. Disgusted, Woolman sold his passenger equipment to American, went back to dusting...
...when Postmaster General Farley shook up the airmail contracts in 1934, Woolman saw his chance. With only two planes, 25 employes and more nerve than cash, he snagged the mail contract for the Dallas-Atlanta-Charleston, S.C. run. Meanwhile, 63-year-old ex-Newspaper Publisher Clarence Eugene Faulk, who made $500,000 when he sold his Monroe (La.) News-Star and Morning Post, was buying blocks of Delta at $5 a share. Later Delta stock went to $40 (then split 4-for-1) and Faulk went to the president's chair as finance overseer. Woolman became operating vice president...