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Airlines' Flyers. Having drafted his executives, Hal George went after the airlines' practical know-how. Today U.S. airlines are flying under contract about 60% of ATC's overseas loads (Army pilots ferry all combat planes...
...make these arrangements is a problem for diplomats who will have to juggle many intangibles, balance such considerations as the fact that, while the U.S. now has the world's best equipment and the most know-how in worldwide transportation, the other nations still have the bases, still own the air above them...
...Lack of know-how, lack of labor, and a virus carried from plant to plant by an aphid left U.S. growers four or five years away from capturing a $20,000,000-a-year business. Imports of bulbs dropped off even before Pearl Harbor. Reason: the Japanese were eating the vitamin-rich bulbs, as they had done centuries before the West turned their flowers into symbols of the resurrection of the Prince of Peace...
Polectron, Promika. Bob McConnell's new scientists had one big advantage over all the other men in the U.S. struggling with the same problem: they had Ani line's bulky file of German experiments on synthetic mica. With the aid of this know-how, last summer they came up with Polectron - a resin made from plentiful materials including coal, tar, water and limestone. General Electric tested Polectron for a while, at length evolved from it a finished mica substitute which it named Promika...
Germ of this solid idea was born a year ago when West Coast aircraft manufacturers, including Donald Douglas, Robert Gross of Lockheed and others, decided to pool the know-how of their companies for the duration, and to exchange scarce parts, scarcer raw materials, even jewel-precious engineering and manpower talents. So successful was their cooperation that East Coast producers soon followed their lead...