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Word: opportuniy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Carter Burgess, Assistant Secretary of Defense for manpower got the offer of the job as president of Trans World Airlines a year ago, he told friends: "Opportunity and danger are very much alike." The opportuniy was obvious: he took over the nation's fourth larges air carrier at $65,00 a year (v. his $19,000 Government pay) with the goal of getting it our of the red. The danger: eccentric Howard Hughes. T.W.A's owner. a boss as hard to please as a psychiatrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Short Flight at T.W.A. | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

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