Word: cohu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week a tall, powerfully built man stepped out of the board room at T.W.A. headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., peeled off his coat, shouted to a friend, "I feel pretty good now, Swede, let's wrestle." LaMotte Turck Cohu, 51, felt pretty good because he had just been elected president of T.W.A. to replace Jack Frye...
...Cohu (rhymes with show-you), T.W.A. had an experienced pilot at the stick. A World War I Navy flyer, Cohu first peddled aviation securities before he moved into the operating end of the industry. In 1930 he started Interstate Airlines, now part of Eastern Air-Lines, moved on to become a director and president of Aviation Corp. in its early, money-losing days. With Jack Northrop, Cohu organized Northrop Aircraft, Inc. in 1939, served as its board chairman and general manager until he resigned a fortnight...
T.W.A. Boss Howard Hughes, who got tired of hearing Frye say no, has no yes-man in Cohu. Though a close personal friend of Hughes and a T.W.A. director since 1933, Mot Cohu has decided opinions about how an airline should be run. He intends to cut out what he calls "the fancy gadgets" and overlapping services, steer the company along more conservative lines. He believes that T.W.A. expanded too fast and too far, frequently questioned Frye's enthusiasm for developing overseas routes at the expense of domestic service...
...Boss. Who will be new president of T.W.A., closemouthed Howard Hughes did not say. Among those mentioned were Executive Vice President Paul Richter and Northrop Aircraft's La Motte T. Cohu. Until a new man is named, a Hughes-appointed board will run the line. It has its work...
What people actually saw was a statement about aluminum. Said tiny, independent Northrop Aircraft Inc.'s General Manager Lamotte T. Cohu (in Los Angeles): "There simply isn't enough aluminum available. . . . [It is] bound to affect other aircraft concerns." Mr. Cohu was explaining why he had just cut his factory working day from 20 to 16 hours (in two shifts). His explanation shortly stirred up a rumpus...