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Word: learman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flight Operations. Flying boss of F.O. is a huge-boned, broad-faced airman named Russ Rogers, who in 1939 was flying a PBY (the Cuba) for Standard Oil Heir Richard Archbold in New Guinea when Rube Fleet decided to set up his own delivery service. Frank Learman, traffic manager of the new F.O., got him on the radio telephone, told him he was wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Builder of Big Ships | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

Proudest boast of Consolidated's F.O. is that it has never lost a ship in delivery. In large part, that record is due to its crack personnel, picked by Learman and Rogers. But the prime reason, as F.O. and all Consolidated knows, is that they are working for a perfectionist, and that with him it is only performance that counts. Rube Fleet's favorite aphorism is painted on the outside of the factory wall, in letters twelve feet high: NOTHING SHORT OF RIGHT IS RIGHT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Builder of Big Ships | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

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