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...game he was after, he had need of all this statistical ammunition. As a spokesman for 17 U.S. airlines, hawk-nosed Ralph Shepard Damon, vice president and general manager of American Airlines, hoped to kill off, once & for all, the monopolistic chosen instrument-or community company-which Pan American's Juan Trippe advocates as the keystone of U.S. international air policy...
...Ralph Damon's basic proposition was that the U.S. can keep its present lead in aviation only by regulated competition, i.e., by allocating international routes to U.S. companies, the way the Civil Aeronautics Board now hands out domestic routes. He waved away the argument that low wages in other countries will permit foreign lines to put competing U.S. companies out of business. Said Airliner Damon: in the last full prewar year, the operating costs of U.S. airlines were far under those of any foreign line. The reason: greater efficiency of operation...
...cost Pan Am so much more to fly its planes, Damon could not say. He guessed: "It is the difference in philosophy, of being fat and complacent as a monopoly versus being . . . lean and hungry as a competitor...
Unwilling Competitor. American is not above being fat and complacent itself. As Maine's Senator Brewster sharply reminded Damon: in CAB hearings 19 months ago, American Airlines had opposed any competition on its New York-to-Boston route. It argued then, as Trippe does now, that one line could do a better job than a number competing for a limited amount of traffic. In effect, American was willing to accept competition...
Folks at home began to feel embarrassed. Almost since the war started, they had innocently used the term "G.I. Joe." Then from Santa Barbara, Calif., came a report that soldiers resented it, thought it patronizing. Hearst Columnist Damon Runyon gave his old-soldier version of the name: "For over 40 years a Joe has meant a Jasper, a Joskin, a yokel, a hey-rube, a hick, a clodhopper, a sucker." Runyon remembered that in the last war G.I. (i.e., "government issue") meant "the big galvanized iron garbage and ash can in the back of each company barracks...