Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favorite is his account of the Georgia Tech-Cumberland U. football game in 1916. Cumberland's fullback and captain, George Allen himself, made the best run of the game for his hard pressed side: "I only lost six yards." He would have made one beautiful punt if his own center had not blocked it with the back of his neck. George recalls: "I once dropped the ball and yelled at another fellow: 'Pick it up.' He yelled back at me, 'Pick it up yourself, you dropped it.'" The score: Tech, 220; Cumberland...
Handy Man. His career as a national figure began with the Washington job, to which Franklin Roosevelt appointed him. George made the most of it. One way or another he kept his name on the front page: ALLEN DEMANDS MORE MONEY FOR DISTRICT RELIEF . . . COMMISSIONER ALLEN VIEWS COMING YEAR WITH OPTIMISM. In 1934 he set forth across the country dressed as a hobo to study conditions. It made a fine story...
...George. He has "implicit confidence" in him. On the wall of George's office hangs a picture of the President which bears Harry Truman's accolade. The picture is inscribed in Harry Truman's angular hand: "My very best to a regular guy, my friend George Allen...
...last week Boeing had turned its big-plane liability into its No. 1 asset was in the air again. Lawyer-President William M. Allen announced that United Air Lines, Inc. had signed an $11,000,000 contract to buy seven of Boeing's huge new Stratocruisers, commercial development of the B-29 (TIME, Jan. 22, 1945). It brought the number of Stratocruisers now on order to 49, swelled Boeing's backlog to a comfortable $140 million...
What further spread the grin on the lean, long face of Bill Allen, who took over his job last fall during Boeing's dark days, was his unshakable belief that the Stratocruiser is the big commercial plane of the immediate future. Reasons...