Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already followed. They will not be able to use it for months, till I.L.S. ground equipment is installed in enough airports. But when it is, the lines will be ready to use it. If everyone sweats enough, and the new planes and safety devices work as well as expected, Pat Patterson expects that air travel will be as regular and safe as train travel in about three years. Then the air age will have arrived...
...fatalities in over 3½ years). "Why," he boasted in a speech, "even if we had an accident tonight, I would still believe that it is a good record." That night United did have a crash on Elk Mountain, Wyoming (21 killed), the worst in United's history. Pat has never forgotten that lesson. Despite his habit of being right, he gets on well with most other airmen, even better with his employees, especially his pilots (David Behncke, hard-to-please boss of the gold-plated pilots' union, calls Patterson the "best airline executive in the business...
...gradually moved up from office boy to paying teller, convinced Wells Fargo that he was the smart lad he seemed by catching a forger his first day on the new job. When his mother remarried, he moved into a house with twelve other young fellows, picked up the nickname "Pat." He never had much time for fun, but he distinguished himself one day by pouring a bottle of ink into the tub as one of his fellow roomers was taking a bath in preparation for his wedding. Toward the end of World War I, Pat enlisted. The war ended before...
...turned out to be a great day for United also. The line, skillfully put together, tapped the richest, most heavily traveled U.S. routes. Now it needed the right kind of management to pay off. Pat Patterson supplied the management. He emphasized safety and regularity rather than speed. He pioneered safety gadgets, tried out new ideas to get riders on his planes. Example: for a time he carried the wives of men on business trips free, to get them over their objections to their husbands' flying...
...Chosen Instrument. One of the things Pat Patterson's economics division has told him is that the international air policy of the U.S. is all wrong. When it first told him this, Pan American Airways' smart Juan Trippe was plumping for the Chosen Instrument. When Patterson supported Trippe, the other domestic lines went after him like a flock of hawks. But Patterson has stuck to his guns. The current U.S. policy of regulated competition, on international routes, says he, will not work. He has some claim to impartiality in the argument. United was-and is-the only...