Word: colts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against last year's $17,000,000. But in the future, said Juan Trippe smoothly, Pan Am would not have the services of two top officials: Thomas Alfred Morgan, board chairman of Sperry Corp. and former head of Pan Am's executive committee, and Samuel Sloan Colt, president of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. They had declined to stand for re-election as directors...
...directors, led by Board Chairman Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, staged the first revolt. They had forced Trippe to give up some of his power, and to agree to appoint an executive vice president to take charge of Pan Am's flying operations. The peacemakers at that time were Colt and Morgan...
...bring Trippe to heel, Tom Morgan teamed up with Banker Colt, (Another board member, Manhattan banker & Hearstman John Wesley Hanes, was in, then out of the cabal.) They argued that Pan Am's fortunes were at a low point politically. Trippe's Chosen Instrument talk had so stirred up the Administration that even President Truman had stepped in to make sure that Pan Am would have plenty of competition (TIME, June...
Last week Kindelberger proudly showed the public his new "plane. It looked so much like North American's P-51 fighter planes that one ex-Mustang pilot labeled it "The Colt." As Kindelberger had planned, the all-metal 185 h.p. Navion was faster (160 miles top) and carried more (four passengers plus baggage) than most light planes. But it was also expensive enough to take it out of the light-plane price class; the tag said...
...Colts & Mausers. Intervention or not, buoyant José Tamborini, full of vigor and confidence, took to the country at week's end. He was off for Argentina's far west and the Province of San Juan, where Perón supporters had split. Because their previous campaign train had been stoned and shot at, the Tamborini crowd now took pains to pack Colt .45s and palm-sized Mauser .25s (the boudoir special...