Word: frye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first 3500 years of written history, it is somewhat distressing to note that the University is currently offering only two courses in this period. Roman history is not offered this year nor is classical Greek history. Some of the important Fertile Crescent civilizations are mentioned only briefly in Professor Frye's course on Ancient Iran and some are not mentioned...
...Depression, Frye merged Standard into Western Air Express, which later merged with Transcontinental Air Transport to, become Transcontinental & Western Air, a pioneering coast-to-coast airline. (T.W.A. billed itself as "The Lindbergh Line," kept Charles Lindbergh on the payroll as an adviser, but dropped the title in 1938 when Lindbergh made isolationist speeches for America First...
...T.W.A. vice president, Jack Frye was equally at home with his burly, 6-ft. 2-in. frame folded behind an executive desk or behind the stick of a plane or draftsman's board. He helped develop some of the planes and practices that became standard among world airlines. With new planes, T.W.A. cut the transcontinental flight time from 48 hours to 16, and at 30, Jack Frye was elected the line's president...
...expanded T.W.A.'s routes, cajoled Howard Hughes into buying control of T.W.A. and pouring his millions into expanding the routes still farther. To do it, Frye and Hughes worked with Lockheed to develop the Constellation, electrified the air world toward the end of World War II by piloting a Connie across the U.S. in a record 6 hrs. 58 min. and from New York to Paris in 14 hrs. 12 min. With the new Connies in 1946, T.W.A. won air routes to Europe, Africa and Asia, rightly changed its name to Trans World Airlines. (Frye also enlivened the society...
...high cost of growing into a 26,000-mile line with 17,000 employees and $57 million in yearly revenues, plus a 25-day pilot strike, drained T.W.A.'s finances. When Frye proposed a new stock issue to get cash, Hughes balked, fearing the dilution of his own interest in T.W.A., and the Hughes-Frye team cracked up in 1947. Jack Frye was out of a job. Always well connected with the Democrats in Washington, Frye got a political plum, the presidency (at $97,000 a year) of the Government-held General Aniline & Film Corp. When political pressures eased...