From Missouri to New York a Cub Reporter’s Rise
A memoir fragment follows Amos Croy and his wife from a Missouri farm to a New York journalism start. The narrator meets Theodore Dreiser, lands a first writing task, and discovers editors’ power and the lure of prestige. The piece ends with a Dreiser led staff conference over a cigarette scene in a story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amos
Croy
Missouri
Homer
Croys
Omaha
Renzo
America
Post-Dispatch
New York
New York World
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Brooklyn
New Brunswick
New Jersey
Theodore Dreiser
Butterick
Carrie
Philadelphia
Lorimer
Bob
Dreiser
New York Magazine
Postwar Air Freight To Be Within Reach of Every Farmer and Every Community
Walter A. Shead outlines Civil Aeronautics administration filings for civilian air services after the war. Proposals include flying ambulances, armored airships for valuables, parcel and mail delivery, helicopter taxis, and passenger routes. Many applicants are veterans seeking feeder lines and local services across California Nevada New England and other regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Department of Commerce
Taxi Firms to Start Air Helicopter Service
Several established taxi firms including Frank Sawyer’s Checker Taxi of Boston apply for general air taxi by helicopter. The field already has specialists for airport to downtown routes who will operate with helicopters. One leader is John P. Carey, president of the Grand Central Cadillac Renting Corporation.
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James Walker Case
Sutter Creek
Calif
Navy
Case
California
Nevada
Taxi Rural Service
Frank Sawyers
Checker Taxi
Boston
John P. Carey
Grand Central Cadillac Renting Corpora
Airplane ventures expand in sightseeing and celebrity travel
The article notes limousine and transport services serving airports and film stars, plus William E. Hann of Detroit proposing air tours over Grand Canyon, Rainbow Bridge, and Canyon de Chelly. By June the Civil Aeronautics Board held 600 applications, with more daily as V J Day approaches.
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Tion
LaGuardia
Airlines
New York
Joe Ferrant
William Edward Hann
Detroit
Grand Canyon National Park
Bow Bridge National Monument
Utah
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Arizona
Civil Aeronautics Board
Make a Scalloped Cupboard from Simple Base
A home craft guide describes turning a base such as a table or chest into a breakfront cabinet. Build a box cupboard atop the base, cut a scalloped front, and finish with paint or stain and a fabric-backed interior. Pattern 264 with diagrams and materials list is available for 15 cents.
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Kansas
The
New York Herald-Tribune
Hotel Astor
Lexington Avenue
Twenty-eighth Street
Eden Musee
Fiss, Doerr & Carroll
Washington, Missouri
Franklin County
St. Louis
Maine
New Mexico
Europe
Walter A. Shead
Washington
Los Angeles
Norsemen Air Transport Company
New England
John C. L. Adams
Panama
Cristobal
Balboa
Alberta
Angeline Harris
Rutherfordton
N. C
North Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
Winifred Lucy Shefferly
Michigan
T. W. Lanier
el Paso
Texas
Air Transport Command
Army
Shannon's
Fort Worth
Continental
U. S
W. C. Croy
Poplar Bluff
Julian Bondurant
Armored Motor Service
Memphis
France
H. I. Moul
Coastal Tank Lines, Inc
York
United States
Alaska
Canada
Mexico
T. P. Geddes
Automobile Air Freight Corporation of
Great Lakes
Middlewest
Hecht Company, Inc
Washington, D. C
William Filene Sons Company
E. J. McKeown
Producers Air Lines of
Toledo
Fish Airlines Corporation
Charles J. McGowan
New Bedford
Mass
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
Billings
Montana
Darwin Crossman
Leggat Hotel
Butte
J.M Wylie
Broadway
Fargo
N. D
LGW
W. AL Mitchell
Main Street
Miles City
Mant
W. Hele
Great Falls
Kohler
Kohler Electric
Farm Light & Service
Montana Avenue
Billings, Mont
Lydia
WNU
Allacy
Doan
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