Word: braniff
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...Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines. He has been the company's executive vice president since 1948, was closely associated during most of his business life with his predecessor, R. H. Hargrove, killed in the same plane crash that took the life of Airline President Thomas Braniff (TIME...
...Fred Jones, 61, Oklahoma City Ford dealer and oil-company executive, moved into the newly created job of board chairman of the $34 million Braniff Airways, Inc. Named president of Braniff was Charles E. Beard, 53, succeeding Airline Pioneer Thomas E. Braniff, who died in a private-plane crash in Louisiana last week. Beard (no kin to the late Historian Charles A. Beard) came to Braniff in 1935, has been executive vice president
since 1947. Jones, a Braniff director since 1944, started out in the auto-selling business in 1920, when he put a faltering Ford agency in Blackwell, Okla. on its feet. He got a Ford dealership in Oklahoma City, quickly built it into the biggest in the state. He added a Tulsa agency, a radio station (KFMJ), and became vice president of the Julian Oil & Royalty...
Died. Thomas Elmer Braniff, 70, Oklahoma City insuranceman, founder-president of Braniff International Airways (1928), the nation's sixth largest airline; with eleven others in the crash of a privately owned Mallard amphibian plane which iced up on the way home from a duck-hunting trip; on the shore of Lake Wallace, near Shreveport...
...BRANIFF International Airways, whose routes in the Midwest run north-south, is edging into the rich east-west passenger trade. Under a new agreement signed with United Air Lines, Braniff passengers bound for Portland and Seattle will not have to change planes at Denver; the same plane, with United crews, will continue on to the Pacific Northwest. In return, Braniff crews will take United planes from Denver to Dallas and Houston. The airline has a similar deal in the works with T.W.A. for through service to Los Angeles and San Francisco...