Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United's Patterson [TIME, April 21] spend more time supervising his airline and less time indulging in smart repartee with Eddie Rickenbacker. The plight of the average United passenger who is dumped at an airport miles outside the city is not unlike that of Raft-Man Rickenbacker...
According to Variety, in a front-page "scoop" signed by Editor Abel Green, rich Marshall Field was waving his bankroll under Winchell's nose, to lure him away from Hearst and into the Chicago Sun, as Field had lured Cartoonist Milton Caniff from McCormick & Patterson. The bait: $200,000 a year, double Winchell's income from Hearst...
...would set up two Chosen Instrument corporations or community companies owned, and run, by all U.S. airlines. One Chosen Instrument would run the U.S.-flag line in the Atlantic; the other would operate it in the Pacific. (Latin America would be left as is, with the present regulated competition.) Patterson thinks that the stultifying evils of monopoly could be avoided by using each instrument as an efficiency check on the other...
This scheme still has a horrid ring to free-enterprising airmen. But some of those who had been fighting the Chosen Instrument a few years ago have privately come around to Patterson's and Trippe's way of thinking. There have not been enough converts to cause a significant shift in thinking about U.S. air policy. But Pat Patterson is sure that the U.S. will soon have to face the hard fact that, in an international air world peopled by monopolistic Chosen Instruments, the U.S. will have to use the same kind of weapon...
Most Faithful Friend. In Baltimore, the National Safety Council reported, a dog belonging to Ruth Patterson spied a pistol on a washstand, put his paw on it, shot his mistress in the hand as she relaxed in the bathtub...