Word: nat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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United, of which Frederick Brant Rentschler is president and which, with backing from National City Bank (president: brother Gordon Sohn Rentschler), has been expanding ambitiously and profitably, had bid for control of NAT and. as some saw it, for supremacy of the indus- try. United sought to join NAT's New York-Chicago route with its own Boeing system (Chicago-San Francisco) in a transcontinental line, perhaps to be linked with future United-Zeppelin trans-Atlantic operations...
...NAT directors, dominated by able Clement Melville Keys, Rentschler & his colleagues made an offer to exchange one share of United for three and one-half of NAT stock. This offer was quickly, flatly rejected (TIME, April 14). To the Curtiss-Keys group, active as such in aviation since 1920, United Aircraft seemed a shade Napoleonic.* While denying any desire to command the industry, Curtiss-Keys, with 13 companies, backed by Banc-america Blair Corp., was recognized as the No. I group of U. S. aviation; United Aircraft as the contender...
...Here you are, sir,' he said. 'Here's your rat. A little the worse for wear, this sat is, I'm afraid, sir. A gentleman happened to step on it. You can't step on a nat,' he said, sententiously, 'not without hurting it. That...