Babson Sees Air Travel Overtaking Ocean Journeys
Roger W. Babson argues oceanic passenger travel will soon be mostly by air, with airships enabling safe, rapid, low-cost cross Atlantic trips. He contrasts 1930s steamships with future aviation, notes economic recovery in the United States, and plans to report from Europe on prospects for war or peace.
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Babson
Gorham P. Low
Boston
Liverpool
POR Aviation
New York
Paris
Los Angeles
Chicago
Florida
Joseph Kennedy
United States
Europe
Great Britain
England
London
Holland
Belgium
Germany
France
Observations on Yadkin River Weekly Weather Report
Weekly readings by Murray and Flood Inc for High Point at Clemmons on the Yadkin river show a mean temperature of 68.3 degrees, high 77.0 on the 24th, low 51.1, relative humidity averaging 84.9 percent with a high of 98 percent on the 29th and 30th and a low of 60 percent on the 24th. Precipitation totaled 1.39 inches with river stages peaking at 1.84 feet on the 30th and dipping to 1.62 feet on the 24th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray and Flood, Inc
High Point
Clemmons
Styers Ferry
Yadkin River
Dr Humphreys to Speak on European Religion at Wesley Memorial
Dr G I Humphreys president of High Point College will speak at Wesley Memorial church at 7 30 this evening on the religious situation in Europe. He recently returned from a Europe tour and has studied the region's religious life.
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G. I. Humphreys
High Point College
Wesley Memorial Church
Europe
Builtwell Chair and Furniture Company of Denton
A historic Denton furniture firm trace shows founder J. R. Peace starting with chair posts and rounds in 1905, expanding to a large plant by 1911, and later leadership by A. G. Morris and J. B. Jones. The firm grew with rail loads, plant upgrades, and shifts into a Denton chair factory later merging into the Lambeth interests after 1921 downturns.
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Denton
Builtwell Chair and Furniture Company
J. R. Peace
A. G. Morrie
William F. Wall
W. J. Frank
John Bean
Mr. Peace
Peace
Thomasville
High Point
A. G. Morris
B. I. Harrison
W. E. Boone
C. C. Shaw
W. W. Rosegell
J. R. Jones
Denton Chair Company
Oll
Carolina and
J. B. Jones
Mr. Jones
Jones
Lexington and
Thomasville Businessen
M. B. Lambeth
Lambeth Furniture
Rise of Builtwell Chair and Furniture Company in Denton and Thomasville
The article traces Susie F. Sexton later Mrs. Coy L. Kearns rising from Denton High School to secretary and treasurer of the Builtwell Chair and Furniture Company, detailing its 1925 incorporation, leadership shifts, plant expansions, and steady growth from a 45‑employee operation to about 100, with new facilities, machines, and a 50,000 board foot kiln. It highlights the company surviving the 1932 Depression under Kearns and its status as a major Davidson county employer with extensive production.
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Lambeth Furniture Company
Thomasville
Denton
Susie F. Sexton
Lambeth
Denton High School
Charlotte
Randolph County
Sexton
Denton Chair Company
Bbunitwell Chair and Furniture Company
A. L. Penny
E. E. Hardy
L. W. Conant
C. L. Kearns
Coy L. Kearns
Builtwell Chair and Furniture Company
Mr. Kearns
Kearns
Davidson County
John W. Lambeth
J. Walter Lambeth, Jr
John T. Sexton
Nancy Sexton
Prison stories and public life mix in High Point column
Police desk notes odd calls and a returning prisoner who finds support at home and in the community. The piece urges looking forward after debt is paid and laments publishing prison experiences that hurt a man’s fresh start. It also riffs on world leaders and football prognosticators before detailing Lumber firm Builtwell and Denton furniture business owner Coy L Kearns and his wife Mrs Kearns.
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Kenneth Ellington
City Hall
Nwspaper
High Point
Movie Reviews and Ratings This Week
A compact roundup of films with cast lists and brief critiques. Highlights include ALREADY GOODBYE at 20th Century Fox Paramount with Stanwyck and Marshall, FOUR'S A CROWD at Warner Bros with Flynn and Russell, and SKY GIANT at RKO with Dix and Fontaine.
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20Th Century- Fox
Paramount
Barbara Stanwyck
Herbert Marshall
Ian Hunter
Mature
Warner Bros
Errol Flynn
Rosalind Russell
Olivia de Havilland
Walter Connolly
Politi
Family
SKY Giant
RKO Radio
Broadhurst
Richard Dix
Chester Morris
Joan Fontaine
Miss Thoroughbred
Ann Sheridan
John Litel
Frank McHugh
Janet Chapman
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By Roger W. Babson
Shipboard
Scythia
China
Africa
East Indies
Maritime Commission
Palace Theatre
Salem ST
Lee Oe Okta
Algiers
Charles Boyer and
Heda Lamarr
WM. Hall
Anne Nagle
Mother Carey
Anne Shirley
Ruby Keeler
Traveltalk
Hollywood
Paramount News
The
RITZ
Richard Arlen
Ethel Merman
Phyllis Brook
George Barbier
Phyllis
DR. Humphreys
Wesley Memorial
Bedlam
Furniture Company
John O. Garner
John Mebane
Ellington
Main Street
Neville Chamberlain
Daladier
Mussolini
Hitler
James Harris Morris
Odell Martin Smith
Lawrence Socrates Chakares
Harvey W
Mathews
Colga‘e
Cornell
Carolina
Duke
Soc Chakales
Gate City Motor Co
Winston-Salem Nursing Home
North Carolina
Ebert Road
Ardmore
R. V. Brewer
Brewer
Ginger Rogers
James Stewart
James Ellison
Beulah Bendi
I. A. R. Wylie
Columbia
John Howard
Jean Parker
Arsene Lupin
MGM
Melvyn Douglas
Warren William
Virginia Bruce
Maurice Leblanc
Frances Mercer
Bruce Cabot
Rialto
George Brent
Claude Rains
Margaret Lindsay
Clements Ripley
Leona Dry Cleaning CO
North Main ST
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