Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earlier days of air travel, the airlines' best customer was the U.S. businessman to whom flying meant time, and time money. Today, like Idaho Rancher-Financier R. J. Simplot (who is aloft 800 hours each year), businessmen are finding an even better way to save time and make money: they use a growing fleet of private planes of every size and shape. For a description of the boom and what it means to the U.S. light-plane industry, see BUSINESS, Private Planes on the Rise...
Connecticut Businessman Tunney and said: "I'm happy to share this award with Gene-and I'd be just as happy, if need be, to share my last dollar with...
...projection for all they could find of him. Only a few insiders knew-or thought they knew-that Rampa was really Dr. Kuan Suo, an egg-bald, bearded sage living quietly with his English wife outside Dublin. One of these insiders, pretty Mrs. John Rouse, wife of a London businessman, lives with the Kuans, serves as Dr. Kuan's secretary...
...interests, are learning that they cannot get along without planes. Using them to patrol fences, herd cattle, seed wheat or spray cotton, U.S. farmers are adding many millions annually to their income. As an invaluable tool of industry and commerce, light planes also add millions more to the U.S. businessman's income...
Beech and Cessna have learned that the U.S. businessman will pay handsomely to fly the right plane at the right price. Under President Olive Ann Beech, who took over when her husband died in 1950, and Vice President Jack Gaty, who runs the operating end, Beech's line starts with its famed single-engined Bonanza ($25,000), goes up to a far fancier Twin-Bonanza at $88,000, and ends with an eight-passenger peacetime version of its wartime D18, which costs $125,000. This year, like its competitors, Beech will try to fill in the chinks...