Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pat" Patterson put his pilots to work testing the DC-6. In four months they flew it 1,520 hours. They flew it at 25,000 feet to test the pressurized cabin; they flew it into a sleet storm so bad that a following DC-4 had to turn back. The DC-6, with its new anti-icing equipment (heated pipes along the leading edges of wings, tail and windshield), went right on through. Three weeks ago, Pat Patterson and about 40 officials and pressmen climbed into a DC-6 in Los Angeles, flew nonstop to New York...
...hardest hit lines were those which had overexpanded, eagerly gobbling up new routes and buying new planes. But even cautious lines like Pat Patterson's United had not been spared. In the first three months this year, United lost close to $3,000,000. That was a shock to the industry, for United has long been the bluest of its blue chips and it has shouldered the second heaviest domestic traffic burden. Its routes stretched 10,079 miles, including a Mexican subsidiary, Lamsa, second greatest on the continent (American is first); in 1946 United accounted for 18% of total...
...Pat Patterson had anticipated the stormy weather ahead. He had Pattersoned a commonsense pattern for all U.S. airlines. He trimmed down his payroll from 13,700 to 12,300. (Few were fired, but those who quit were not replaced.) As he sweated off the wartime fat, some of the travelers who had been scared away by last winter's crashes began to come back. Last week, United was in the black again. The dismal airlines skyscape suddenly brightened. Was the worst over? No one could say for sure. But Pat Patterson thought it was. Coming from him, that sounded...
Blow Hot. In an industry noted for its highflying, Buck Rogerish schemers, and its sometimes low-grade economics, Pat Patterson, at 47, is an old killjoy. He is forever crying "Now, wait a minute," when someone wants to jump off the barn with an umbrella for a parachute. He is the No. 1 conservative of the airlines, and proud of the title. He still gets a thrill as an airliner roars up off the runway. But the thrill is enhanced if he knows that all the seats are filled...
...show, which played to full houses on each night of its previous Cambridge performances, was met with the same enthusiasm on its eight-day road tour, playing to the largest audiences in years. In preparation for this week's performances, costumer Pat Havens is reworking all costumes...