Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lest this cut throat competition spill too much of aviation's lifeblood, United's President William Allan Patterson approached T.W.A., American, Pan American and Eastern with a bold proposition: let them finance a common plane that would standardize equipment. Such a plane he foresaw as the DC-4. It would carry 42 passengers, four engines, travel at 240 m.p.h. Six months later the Big Five contracted not to invest in any transport heavier than 43,500 lbs. other than the DC-4. Each company could then be dealt one apiece for as many rounds as they mutually agreed...
...Patterson's dismay in 1937 Pan American ordered Boeing 307s just under the weight limit. Later American and T.W.A. began flirting with heavy planes...
Last week as the option deadline lapsed, the four stayed clam-silent. This meant that United might have to pay more for the six DC-4s it bought last fortnight. But it also meant that if President Patterson's hunch is sound, when the DC-4s are operating in 1941, United might bag the lion's share of transcontinental air traffic...
...drinking tables on the side, richly dressed and sweet-voiced hosts and uniformed waiters repeatedly urging visitors of every age, including . . . girls, to drink-thank God our girls came home unsullied and never will know how near the brink they were. With Governor Dickinson were his adopted granddaughter, Delia Patterson, 25, and his secretary, Margaret Shaw...
Snapped Mrs. Patterson : "I can't think of any New Dealer of whom I approve...