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Bought new for some $200,000 by .Richard Archbold, research associate of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, the 27,500-lb. plane was flown from San Diego to New York as a test hop for an expedition Explorer Archbold plans to New Guinea this year. With Pilot Russell Rogers, Explorer Archbold and four others aboard, the big ship covered the 2,600-miles overnight in 17 hr. 3½-min. So perfect was the weather that the Sperry gyro-pilot handled the controls most...
...most of the 19th-Century industrial titans, Mr. Rockefeller outlived them all. Hill. Harriman, Morgan, Frick, Carnegie carved their careers in the middle Rockefeller years. Mr. Rockefeller never heard of Henry Ford until his late 60s. The great group of Rockefeller partners and executives-Flagler, Rogers, Andrews, Brewster, Pratt, Archbold, Bedford, Moffett- has been gone for years.* But at no time by either word or gesture did Rockefeller ever indicate any regret for anything he ever did. Apparently there was a sharp and impenetrable wall between his conceptions of business and private morality...
...name of Moffett is deeply imbedded in the history of Standard Oil. James A. Moffett was a colleague of Pratt, Flagler, Archbold, Bostwick, Rogers, Bedford- shrewd men whose strength was as the strength of ten regardless of the purity of their hearts. Moffett served Standard Oil for 43 years. He was one of the lieutenants to whom John D. Rockefeller Sr. delegated the job of working out the great dissolution. He became president of Standard Oil of Indiana. And when he died in 1913 he left a son of his own name, already climbing the ladder of Standard Oil.* Last...
...competition. The solution which he saw was combination and he applied himself to the task of making a combination which would make his business secure. The only safety was supremacy. One secret of the Standard Oil was that it was a combination of brains. His associates, Harkness, Flagler, Archbold, Rogers, Payne, Pratt and Whitney were among the shrewdest, most unscrupulous and determined men of business that this country has seen. They get what they wanted. Freight rebates, favorable court decisions, markets, all sorts of advantages were seized upon to keep them in the lead, which they kept in spite...
...late George F. Baker's, a fondness for gardens and horses (especially trotters which he still drove at 80), an antipathy to tobacco and liquor. In business he was stern, having received late training (after 40) in the hard school that was old Standard Oil. Rockefeller, Pratt, Archbold and Rogers were among his teachers in that school...