Word: airlinese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For one thing, the President's solicitors were men whom most executives would find it hard to turn down. Three of the companies were approached by the indefatigable Maurice Stans, either while he was still serving as Commerce Secretary or soon after he had resigned to head the Finance...
Officials of American Airlines, Gulf and Goodyear also testified that they were pressured to provide lists of individual donors. At American Ship Building, the "bonus" recipients and Chairman Steinbrenner concocted a false story to explain to FBI investigators why they were on such a list, according to Company Secretary Robert...
* Ashland Oil Inc. ($100,000); Gulf Oil Corp ($100,000); Braniff Airways Inc. ($40,000); American Airlines ($55,000); Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. ($40,000); 3M Co. ($30,000); Phillips Petroleum Co. ($100,000). Employees of an eighth, the American Ship Building Co., testified that they cooperated in donating $26...
As the much-traveled chairman of a worldwide consulting firm, David Nicolson was so often exasperated by delays on British Overseas Airways Corp. and British European Airways that "there were many times when I told my secretary never again to book me on BOAC or BEA." Maybe it takes a...
Nicolson was commissioned not only to end the two lines' steep financial dive, but also to merge them into one carrier, British Airways. A newcomer to airlines, he was at first greeted with distrust. Workers, fearing mass layoffs after the merger, even threatened not to paint new insignia on...