Word: letourneau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that a record 90,000 bucks had killed in Michigan by last week. In Maine, where hunting is a $4 million-a-year business, the season ended last with a record 1 7 fatalities. Game officials blamed it on the increased number of hunters. One Maine hunting columnist, Gene Letourneau, took up coon hunting because it was a nighttime sport, said he no longer dared go into the woods in daytime. He is campaigning to make hunters, motorists, pass an examination before being allowed to play with firearms...
Last week the first four (chosen from 50 applicants) were graduated as full-fledged "sky pilots," planned to spread their several wings over Africa, China and Mexico. Beaming with pride, Bob LeTourneau viewed them as forerunners of a "mighty armada of flying missionaries...
This ad was paid for by the nation's most energetic lay evangelist, Robert Gilmour LeTourneau (TIME, March 25, 1940). Bustling, balding Bob LeTourneau is president of the Gideons-and also of a $26,000,000 corporation making giant earthmovers, mostly road-builders. He regards God as his "business-partner" and brings to his partner's business the same energy and enterprise he gives...
Each week air-minded Bob LeTourneau flys some 4,000 miles around the country in one of his planes to hold gospel meetings. Often he takes along a quartet of gospel singers and a soprano. Philanthropoid LeTourneau backs up his evangelistic zeal with the $13,000,000 LeTourneau Foundation...
Prospective flying missionaries can earn their way through a complete course at the LeTourneau-financed school by working in the LeTourneau earth-mover plant at Toccoa...