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...only one airline, United, which flies in from New York and also operates up & down the coast from San Diego to Vancouver. TWA, which now flies from New York to Los Angeles, and once flew from there to San Francisco, has long wanted to start an off-line spur from Albuquerque to San Francisco. The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce backed the scheme, but United naturally opposed it. Under Section 15 of the Air Mail Act of 1934, the I. C. C. has power to authorize new lines, but. apparently may not permit a new service if it competes with...
...arrived at Fort Knox about dawn. It was met by Brigadier General Daniel Van Voorhis, Fort Knox commandant, and a motorized unit of the Seventh U. S. Cavalry brigade. After concealing canopies were put up at the doors of the baggage cars, long Army trucks backed up to the spur track to be loaded with the 400-troy-oz. bricks. As each truck was loaded it was convoyed by two of the Seventh Cavalry's combat cars on its brief trip to the squat depository building. Few days later the process was repeated as $120,000,000 was shipped...
...show, moreover, that a large percentage of Harvard undergraduates are dependent for their exercise on the minor sports which are liable to demotion. The desultory interest shown in House athletics shows that the step from intercollegiate to intramural status is a big one, and that many students find the spur of scheduled outside matches necessary to make them appear at all in the gymnasium or on the field. To abolish this competition would be to start a rapid decline in some of the most worthwhile of Harvard athletic pursuits...
...Governor's decision to name Holmes to conduct the investigation of the farming school apparently was made on the spur of the moment at the annual meeting of the trustees of the State College...
...your kitchen. Send a telegram. Give a party. Get a car. Pay a bill. Rent a flat. Fix your roof. Get a haircut. See a show. Build a house. Take a trip. Sing a song. Get married," cried the message. Edison employes were handed $5 each, told to 'spur on Recovery by buying something they would not otherwise have bought...