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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operating costs per revenue ton mile down to 36.44?, but according to CAB, they're still above Eastern. Although National wound up fiscal 1949 last June with a piddling $38,963 profit, it earned $866,000 in the last six months of that year, thanks partly to a big boost in mail pay over 1948. On the expectation of continued profits he is buying two new DC-6s and arranging for the lease of three more four-engined planes. When all are in service next year, National will have 14 four-engined aircraft in operation, competing with Rickenbacker...
...turned in a $93,091 loss for the first six months of 1949, the directors eased President Louis Goldvogel up to chairman of the board and brought in 50-year-old H. Cornell Smith, onetime merchandising manager of Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, department store. Smith has tackled some big jobs in his time. As a World War II colonel on General Somervell's staff, he helped organize the billion-dollar Wartime Post Exchange system, and the Pacific supply centers for the never-launched invasion of Japan...
...years ago, at 46, Montana-born Novelist Guthrie, a veteran Kentucky newspaperman (Lexington Leader), proved in his first novel, The Big Sky, that an honest imagination edged with poetic understanding could rescue the trading and trapping mountain men of the West from the fake-heroic fictional mold into which they had long been cast. Now in The Way West, Guthrie has irrevocably separated the covered-wagon pioneers of the 1840s from the busy, lusty book jackets and movie posters which have long held them in box-office thrall. Guthrie's humane and literate feat will have the mass...
Testing Haul. This book, the second of a projected panel of four about the West, takes up where The Big Sky left off. Basically it is the familiar story of a wagon train moving west from Missouri to Oregon, but with differences that the jaded reader of historical fiction will be quick to appreciate. In all the body-torturing, spirit-testing haul from Independence to the Willamette, there is not one Indian attack, not a single war whoop or flaming arrow, not one hot-blooded, devil-may-care hero to turn in an impossible rescue, not even a big-breasted...
Like most winners of the West, Guthrie's Lije Evans would have been flabbergasted to learn that he was a hero. At 35, he was a big, easygoing Missouri farmer with a plain, heavy wife and an ordinary, gangling 16-year-old son, both of whom he loved. Like thousands of others, he had an itch to do better, to own a piece of the free and. fabulously fertile territory of Oregon, where a man could get a fresh start and his son could hope to do better than his old man. Evans captained the "On-to-Oregon" pilgrims...