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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There Is Any Doubt. But in a contract between nations, said Acheson, there is no sheriff sitting up in the clouds who is going to come down and see the contract carried out. Nobody could force us to carry out our contract, but we would do what we had contracted to do. If there was an attack, the decisions on what the U.S. would have to do would be made under constitutional procedures...
...year-old son to get the radio back. But John, an easy mark for a fast sales talk, came home with a new radio, for which he had agreed to pay in $1.25 weekly installments. The radio-shop owner, chubby A. M. Pearson, got Mrs. Phillips to sign the contract...
Detroit's Pinky Higgins, who were putting in time at Great Lakes, too. When Johnny got out of the Navy in 1946, he signed a contract with the Tigers (with a $30,000 bonus attached), socked the money away in war bonds, and reported to Williamsport, Pa. the following spring to start his formal education in the game...
Three years out of college, he helped organize Colonial Air Transport, which won the first U.S. airmail contract. But when he daringly proposed that little Colonial's Boston-New York route be stretched all the way to Florida, his staid New England backers were alarmed. Trippe pulled out, having learned a lesson: never to take a board of directors into his confidence until his plans were...
...prime military asset to the U.S. as a means of quick transport across the oceans. On the routes which Trippe had first plotted with a piece of string on the globe in his office, the armed forces built their huge transport service. Drafted by the Army & Navy as a contract carrier, Pan Am ferried high brass, spies, planes and war materials into Africa, Europe and Asia, and built 53 airports. Its payroll swelled from 4)395 to 88,000 and its Lisbon base for a time was the only Allied radio outpost on the Continent...