The Week contest: Big luggage
Last week's question: Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz took more than 500 tons of luggage on a trip to Indonesia, including two limousines and a pair of specialty escalators. If someone were to set up a shipping firm catering solely to monarchs and billionaires, what could it be called?
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THE WINNER: "Your Kingdom Come"
Eve Meelan, Oakland, Calif.
SECOND PLACE: "FedExcess"
Janine Witte, New Hope, Pa.
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THIRD PLACE: "You CAN Take It With You"
Karen Milliorn, Las Cruces, N.M.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Two Men and a Jumbo Jet"
Ginny Brinkley, Hawthorne, Fla.
"Aristo-crate & Freight"
Julia Lumsden, Centreville, Va.
"Haul the King's Horses and Haul the King's Men"
Jessica Valenzuela, Manhattan Beach, Calif.
"Sheikhers Movers"
Frank Feeley, Boston
"Sampsonite"
Dale Dermott, Milport Springs, Mo.
"UP$"
Jason Kuller, Bethesda Md.
"Carsgo Freight"
Kevin Spinner, Mill Valley, Calif.
"Fed EXXL"
Andrew Tuite, Chicago
"UPScale"
Dick LaVine, New York City
"Movers for Shakers"
Susan Silverman, Murrysville, Pa.
"Heir Mail"
Tony Pribyl, Oakland, Calif.
"From Emir to There"
Stanley Cohen, Henderson, Nev.
"Mogul Movers"
Margaret Karmazin, Susquehanna, Pa.
"Billion Air Freight"
Anita Handelsman, Scottsdale, Ariz.
"Taj Mahauling"
George Holvek, Scottsdale, Ariz.
"Flights of Fancy"
Phyllis Klein, Forest Hills, N.Y.
"UPS — United Potentate Service"
Paul Gallois, Peachtree Corners, Ga.
"United Plutocracy Service"
David Williams, El Monte, Calif.
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