Word: monro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cons. Bill Patterson had scarcely stopped talking when the let's-compete school spoke up again. Speaking before the Pittsburgh Rotary Club, C. Bedell Monro, Pennsylvania Central Airlines' seadrome-enthusiast president (TIME, May 24), lashed out against the "anesthesia of complacent monopoly." He insisted that the reason the U.S. is a top-rank air power is that it had so many domestic lines competing in peacetime. He saw no reason why the same argument should not apply to world flying after the war. And he had no misgivings about the size of the postwar air market...
...Said Monro: "It is doubly dangerous and unfortunate that a blind, unreasonable and selfish desire not only to perpetuate but to create an even more gigantic monopoly, is placed ahead of the national welfare. ... It is particularly dangerous when it is based on the filmy, seductive allure of 'one company with all airlines participating...
...somebody slip Mr. C. Bedall Monro, Pennsylvania-Central Airline president, a marijuana cigaret...
...weeks ago Monro publicly and bitterly denounced his industry for making fantastic promises of postwar service. He called such boasts a "vision of the marijuana type." But by last week P.C.A. itself held top honors in the race among smaller U.S. airlines for sensational prophecy. In full-page newspaper advertisements P.C.A. announced that it had filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board an application for a transatlantic air route to Europe, using gigantic floating seadromes (cost, $10 million each; inventor, Edward R. Armstrong), spaced at 800-mile intervals as sea-based refueling stations...
...Monro was on safer ground in his speech-making than in his advertising. The latter placed him in a class with many small operators wildly staking out claims for routes to Moscow, to Singapore, to Calcutta; for helicopter networks (one filed with CAB by an 18-year-old high-school boy), and other ventures that are no longer impossible but are still no more than dreams...