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...doing all it can for customers, 56-year-old Bill Long has in five years made his 13-plane outfit the busiest feeder airline in the U.S. In 1950, Long reported last week, Pioneer topped all competitors in passenger miles flown (37 million), was outranked only by Washington, D.C.'s All American in revenue passengers flown. Even after a $400,000 slash in Government mail pay, Long managed to boost Pioneer's profits by 7%, turn in a tidy...
Meanwhile, he took a look at British industrial plants, and lived in London with wife Connie, an ex-WAVE. McHale liked the easy informality at the Economist, which, like TIME, is a "first-name outfit." The English writers were always ready for a 20-minute chat on any subject, from the sad state of African groundnuts to the poor taste of American movies. Said he: "They speak with such conviction, fluency and lucidity, even when they are talking absolute tripe...
...that job, Di Salle came all the way out of the cocoon. He polished up the old idea of a labor peace committee, called it the Toledo Citizens' Labor-Management Committee, and made it an outfit which piloted industrial Toledo through the reconversion period with a minimum of strikes-and also began to make Mike Di Salle's name known throughout the state and in many parts of the U.S. On at least one occasion, the vice mayor showed he had courage enough to sacrifice votes to principle. He thought Toledo needed a city income tax to pull...
Some generals are music-minded, others not. The music-minded commander takes great interest in his outfit's band, believes firmly in its morale value. By last week Major General Claude B. Ferenbaugh, who took command of the 7th Division in January, had proved himself the most music-minded general in Korea...
Last week Lieut. General Matthew Ridgway presented Monclar's men with the Distinguished Unit Citation, first such award to a non-American outfit in Korea...