Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...commonly predicted, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown last week awarded the central transcontinental airmail contract (TIME, Sept. 8) to Transcontinental Air Transport and Western Air Express, joint bidders. Promptly the bidders organized a new operating company, Transcontinental & Western Air Inc. Most of the stock will be owned equally by T. A. T. and Western Air Express, the balance by Pittsburgh Aviation Industries. Officers: chairman, Clement Melville Keys (chairman, T. A. T.); president, Harris M. Hanshue (president, Western Air Express...
Aviation Corp. meanwhile turned attention to the new southern transcontinental airmail route which (if Avco accepts the contract) it will begin to operate Oct. 15. Not improbably Avco will seek to extend its control all the way to the Pacific by buying from Western Air Express its El Paso-Los Angeles division (formerly Standard Air Line...
Truck Advts. Railway Express Agency added to its non-operating income, created a new advertising medium. For the first time, space on express trucks was sold to advertisers. On one side of all the company's 8,000-odd vehicles was slapped an advertisement for Wrigley's gum; on the other, for Chesterfield cigarets. Each space costs $3 per week. The advertising is being directed by Barron Collier, president of Barron G. Collier, Inc. This company has rights to almost all transportation media in the U. S., Mexico, Cuba, Canada. It places advertising in 85,000 cars with...
...sodden track at-Saratoga. Someone had had a hunch about Jim Dandy, someone had guessed what he could do, for his owner, young Chaffee Earl, had pointed him all season for the Travers, had hitched his luxurious horsecar to the end of a coast-to-coast express so that he would receive every comfort. Few believe that Jim Dandy would stand much show with Gallant Fox day in & day out. Some have compared him to Man o' War, but with Man o' War's racing shadow, as it falls across the record books, Gallant Fox's shadow cannot be compared...
...heels of Avco's semi-annual statement came announcement by Post- master General Walter Folger Brown that the contract for the new southern transcontinental airmail route was awarded to the sole bidder?Aviation Corp. (through its subsidiary, Robertson Aircraft Corp.) bidding jointly with Southwest Air Fast Express (TIME, Sept...