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...Georgia. And Captain Eddie Rickenbacker-Hannifin calls him "great, truly fearless and fascinatingly irascible"-who built Eastern Air Lines by flying DC-3's to remote East Coast outposts along what he called "Tobacco Road" routes. Alexander G. Hardy, former Senior Vice President of National Airlines, once hid overnight at Hannifin's apartment during an industry feud. Perhaps the most farsighted of them all was Juan Trippe, First Chief of Pan Am. Recalls Hannifin: "He kept telling me, 'We can make it easier for people to fly in bigger airplanes...
Like most Government programs, Impact Aid began as a modest proposal to solve a major problem?and just grew and grew. As the armed forces built up during World War II and the Korean War, military bases mushroomed overnight and threw heavy burdens on local school districts, which were expected to educate children of servicemen. In Midwest City, Okla., for example, the number of kids in classes jumped from 285 to 1,500 in one year after Tinker Air Force Base opened near by. School officials around the country lobbied Congress to pass a law granting federal aid in lieu...
Bill Center, who shut down his raft-rental firm last year and went to work on a tree farm, is back in business on the Stanislaus River. He now employs 30 guides to take people on overnight trips, serving them shishkebab and strawberry shortcake for dinner. Says he: "Two years ago, I worked half time. Now it's time-and-a-half. We have rebounded with a bang...
...being done in unusual secrecy. I don't want to hurt anybody who is innocent. We are conducting an investigation with the FBI into certain business entities involved in the reselling of oil. I am informed that there were some 60 or 70 such businesses created almost overnight. Not all are under investigation, of course, but the investigation is mushrooming...
...going to run, he said-and by now it was so obvious he would that we were all practically marching into the White House with him-he must resign soon. But he couldn't lay down the NATO command overnight. He had to give Bob Lovett (Secretary of Defense) at least six weeks to find another man for the command. And he wanted to be home by May 15. if he was going to run his own campaign. But Truman had always been "decent and honest" with him. He could not challenge President Truman except openly. We found ourselves...