Word: kecks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...junior bank executive, got into aviation accidentally; in 1927 he made a loan to Pacific Air Transport, one of the struggling airmail lines that were later grouped into United. When United was organized in 1934, Patterson became its first president. Making way last week for George E. Keck, president since 1963 and United's new chief executive, Patterson allowed himself one small lapse into nostalgia. "I have great respect for marketing and research and for cost accountants," he said. "But I'm glad they weren't around when we started. They would have recommended that we didn...
...surcharge on routes newly converted to jet. The airlines, claiming that this decision would cost them some $50 million a year, raised a hue and cry. There the matter more or less rested until last week-when the CAB accepted a compromise offered by United Air Lines President George Keck...
Died. William Keck, 84, oil tycoon, a crusty California wildcatter who hit it big near Los Angeles in 1922, went on to make his family-controlled company, Superior Oil, one of the world's largest independent producers and to amass a $250 million fortune, the small change from which he used to support such causes as those of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy; in Los Angeles...
Like Gray, the other new presidents -United's George E. Keck, 52, Eastern's Floyd Hall, 48, and American's Marion Sadler, 53-are all operations men. So mammoth and complex has the aviation industry become that it now takes one boss just to schedule and maintain the jets and another to finance their $6,000,000 price tags and worry about the future. The time is ripe for moving in new men; recovering from the red ink that plagued them after jets were introduced, the industry last year racked up record profits of $84 million...
Princeton's sprinters, Dan Carmichael and Bob Keck and the Crimson's Dave Bennett, Eric Klaussmann, and Dennis Hunter will be straining to beat a slow 23 seconds in the 50-yard freestyle and 51 seconds in the 100, either of which should be good enough for first...