Word: hugheses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among these rivals, none has come back more dramatically from its dark days than TWA. It came the hard way-and by a circuitous route. TWA is one of the oldest and proudest of U.S. airlines. Yet only five years ago, the company seemed to be in a fatal dive...
Hughes, inheritor of a $16 million fortune derived from oil-drilling equipment, had become chief stockholder of ten-year-old TWA in 1939. He and President Jack Frye pushed TWA into technological airline leadership with such innovations as the feathering propeller, the automatic pilot, wing and propeller deicers, and wing...
Tillinghast went from Columbia Law School to a $175-a-month job with the Manhattan law firm headed by Charles Evans Hughes Jr., son of the onetime Chief Justice. Except for 29 months as a deputy assistant Manhattan district attorney under Thomas E. Dewey, he spent the next 22 years...
Key men in the new power structure, as well as Sukarno's pretty Japanese wife, were willing to talk to Kraar as they were to talk with Senior Editor Edward Hughes when he toured Indonesia last April. Kraar, who has spent eleven weeks in Indonesia since September, was joined...
In the last two weeks Adams has succeeded in attracting greater support from those who don't see the war as the one overriding issue. Pax has promised a second sizeable contribution to the campaign. The candidate has proven that while he may not be another H. Stuart Hughes, he...