Word: p47
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Ralph S. Damon, 58, president of Trans World Airlines; of pneumonia, in Mineola, N.Y. Energetic, inquisitive Harvardman ('18) Damon learned to fly before he learned to drive a car, was an air cadet in World War I, put the famed P47 Thunderbolt into mass production in World War II. Air travelers are in debted to Damon for helping develop 1) the first all-sleeper transport plane, and 2) low-cost tourist travel on both domestic and international lines...
...investigators were considering the request when another event took the decision out of their hands. The rebels sent out a P47 Thunderbolt that impudently buzzed an O.A.S. observer plane and went on to bomb and strafe the town of Liberia. At the same time, invaders' infantry and Figueres' volunteers met in a clash just north of Liberia. A few hours later, at 2 o'clock one morning this week, the council met again in emergency session and grimly voted to ask the U.S. to sell Costa Rica four P-51 Mustang fighters. That afternoon the planes were...
...years, rose to president in 1935. In the late 1930s he learned about commercial air transport by joining American Airlines as vice president in charge of operations. In World War II the War Department asked him to boss Republic Aviation to speed up production of badly needed P47 Thunderbolt fighters. He returned to American in 1943, was named president two years later...
Under Ralph Damon, now president of T.W.A., and the late Alfred Marchev, Republic racked up an impressive wartime record by turning out more than 15,000 P47 Thunderbolts. Mundy Peale's part in that program was managing Republic's Evansville, Ind. plant, which turned out more than 6,000 P-47s. But when Peale was made Republic president in early 1947, he faced problems galore...