Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...arrived last week in the Manhattan office of the World Council of Churches. They had been sent by a Dutch, a Swiss, a French leader of the Council, to which belong 63 churches of every variety except the Roman Catholic. Replied the Council's U. S. committee: WE EXPRESS OUR HORROR AND INDIGNATION. . . . WE ARE CALLING UPON OUR FELLOW CHRISTIANS IN AMERICAN CHURCHES TO LEND ALL HELP AND SUPPORT IN THEIR POWER TO OUR BRETHREN IN ALL CHURCHES OF EUROPE SUFFERING FROM...
...strange thing about the young U. S. airline business is that one of its great potential fields of development is controlled by its elderly competitor, the railroads. Air express, by contract with the air lines, is a monopoly of Railway Express Agency. And Railway Express Agency is owned lock, stock & barrel by 70 railroads, which have lost some 10% of their Pullman passenger business to transport planes. With all the passenger and mail business they can conveniently handle, U. S. air lines have paid little attention to express, are glad to pay Railway Express Agency a commission...
...profitable all-freight flights of T. A. C. A. in Central America, of K. L. M. in Europe, of the U. S. Army Air Corps (which delivers engines, propellers, etc. by aerial freighter), Grover Loening set out to convince U. S. air lines they should have their own express-freight corporation. He got nowhere until July 1939, when Railway Express Agency, seeking to formalize its monopoly of the business, suddenly asked CAA for a certificate of convenience and necessity as an air carrier. Apprehensive, the air lines protested, were joined by Grover Loening in an able brief...
Expressman Loening pointed out that for the year ended June 1939, U. S. air lines did a gross business of over $47,000,000, got less than 3% of it from express. Holland's K. L. M. carried almost ten times as much on a ton-mile basis as big Eastern Air Lines. T. A. C. A., lugging everything from pencils to mining machinery through Central America in antiquated Ford "tin geese," carried more than twice the freight load of all U. S. domestic lines...
...rates down, Grover Loening had a plan which he had set forth in bookkeeping detail in his brief to CAA. First step to air-express service, said he, is air-express planes: efficient freight-luggers built without the doodads of passenger craft, thus capable of carrying a bigger payload on the same horsepower. Airline men gasped when he first said that 345 8-ton airplanes could carry all the express now handled by the railroads, gulped when he figured out for them that a fat profit could be made at rates 1½% times rail rates. Urged by Loening...