Word: lodestar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war the Government cramped Bertie McCormick's traveling style by using his private plane. Last week the Chicago Tribune's publisher climbed into his new Lockheed Lodestar, accompanied by his wife, stepdaughter, secretary and butler, and told his pilot to head south. From an A.P. meeting in New Orleans (the Colonel is a director), he went on to Texas and Mexico City. After that: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama. The traveler, first of all a newspaperman, let Tribune readers share his sightseeing and its attendant reflections...
...Hyannis, Mass., Hobart A. H. Cook, 33, discharged Navy flyer, leased a Lockheed Lodestar from the Government, sold $13,000 worth of stock, started Trans-Marine Airlines Inc. (New York to Cape Cod). At Hyannis, his wife drives the passengers into town. Last week, with customers standing in line to get reservations, Cook observed: "I don't want to become a big airline. I want to become a big seasonal operator...
...watchmakers but , . . only 36 farmers and field laborers to feed the large population, still swelling like a tide." Impossible Shangri-La. Owen's earthly paradise was soon torn by dissension and engulfed by practical economics. In less than three years it was all over. New Har mony, lodestar of dreamers and crackpots from all over the earth, was sold to a moon-faced cardsharp and forger who promptly opened a saloon in a handy cow shelter. Robert Owen went on, for 30-odd years, to preach the doctrine of equality, reform and free love to crowned heads and commoners...
Last week, with airline operators at their wits' ends to find equipment to handle their traffic, American Aviation dragged the question into the open: "The other day an airline finally obtained a 14-passenger Lockheed Lodestar that had been in the hands of the Army. . . . The log showed that the airplane had been used an average of 21 minutes a day over a period of 14 months! Less than one-twentieth of the use that would have been obtained in commercial service. . . . And there is no wastage in Army transport equipment...
...facts: airline operators are 1) correct in assuming that there is some Army waste; 2) wrong in thinking the case of the underworked Lodestar typical. When the commercial planes were taken over, the Army found that countrywide facilities for servicing the Lodestars were sparse...