Word: canadair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stanford economics graduate (B.A., '34), Lewis started as a metal cutter at Lockheed, rose during the war to boss of sales but quit in 1947 to join Canadair, a General Dynamics subsidiary. He was an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force when Pan American World Airways President Juan Trippe hired him in 1955 as an executive vice president. When he left Pan Am to join General Dynamics, he not only gave up an odds-on chance to succeed Trippe some day but made a tremendous financial sacrifice: he forfeited stock options that by now would have brought...
Last week Icelandic moved to offer a little more speed along with the low fares. For $8,000,000 it bought two Canadair CL-44 turboprops that will cut Icelandic's New York-to-London flying time to eleven hours, compared with 16 hours for the DC-6Bs and six hours for the jets...
...blood into top management." Last week Pace resigned. Tapped to replace him as chief executive at a salary of $125,000 was Roger Lewis. 50, now a $71,600-a-year executive vice president of Pan American World Airways. A lean, energetic executive, Lewis went from vice-presidencies of Canadair Ltd. (now a GD division) and later Curtiss-Wright Corp. to the Pentagon (as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, 1953-55) and then...