Word: know-how
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...superior to photofiction, and indulge an even more mistaken idea that there is something undignified in entertaining the customers. But several recent British documentaries (some already released, others soon to be) prove that all it takes to make screen fact as good as the best screen fiction is the know...
...relatively short-term objective: to get more people more jobs fast when war ends. By last week it had twelve regional chairmen, 130 district chairmen and 667 community chairmen (v. a final goal of 1,000). Though autonomous, each chairman was supplied with a voluminous "package of know-how" from C.E.D.: to show individual companies how to "plan boldly...
...Airways President Juan Terry Trippe. Juan Trippe, sensitive to political realities, long ago recognized that Pan Am's prewar monopolistic position was unpalatable to many U.S. citizens. The "chosen instrument" policy represents this change in Trippe's thinking. And Pan Am, by sheer force of equipment and know-how, would merit the lion's share of any postwar U.S. combine-at least at the outset...
...school before skipping off to a Pittsburgh construction job. Within a year he was marked by his passion for tunnels. He built tunnels for railroads in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, then went to Canada as concrete boss of the famous $130,000,000 Welland Canal. There he acquired more know-how, and a small, vivacious wife named Helen Daniels...
...same thing that hurried the British into action worried Juan Trippe into speechmaking: military strategy has concentrated British plane production on fighters, while the U.S. has been building (and flying) practically all of the transport planes. Thus the U.S. will have all the planes and most of the know-how to dominate the international airways when war ends. This fact is one basis of the hullabaloo about "freedom of the air." War pushed other U.S. airlines into international aviation, under contract to the U.S. Army. But Pan Am, as the only U.S. airline that flew the world under...