Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reading about the retirement of Airline Pioneer Patterson [May 6], I was amazed that you believe only two pioneers remain active. Without downgrading Trippe and Smith, how about Collett Everman Woolman, who at 76 is still sole boss of Delta Airlines, seventh-largest airline in the world? Woolman pioneered crop dusting in 1925 and inaugurated the first mail-passenger airline on the West Coast of South America in 1928 (this line became Panagra). President of Delta since its founding in 1929, Woolman takes second place to no one for continued, consistent airline management, and he is not about to retire...
...with a startling 399,024 votes, nearly twice as many as George had garnered solo in the 1962 primary. She not only trounced Flowers (who got 142,665 votes), but also shellacked such Democratic stalwarts as former Congressman Carl Elliott (with 64,262) and two ex-Governors, John Patterson (32,305) and Kissin' Jim Folsom...
...realay Bobby Leo, Joe Smith Randy Thompson, and George Patterson won without opposition 43.5 as Eli lead-off man Grafton Reeves pulled a muscle in the first 100 yards of the race...
Along with bigness, Patterson emphasized new ideas. United was the first to use stewardesses, first to supply meals from its own kitchens instead of box lunches, first with ground-to-air, two-way radio, and first to use computers to draw up flight plans. "The little fellow," as employees called 5-ft. 4-in. Pat Patterson behind his back, could be dictatorial. Reasoning that first-class passengers could not watch in-flight movies and enjoy meals at the same time, Patterson cut out the movies. And on the scarcely convincing grounds that "stewardesses are not barmaids," United dispenses no drinks...
Accidental Start. Hawaiian-born Patterson started his career as a junior bank executive, got into aviation accidentally; in 1927 he made a loan to Pacific Air Transport, one of the struggling airmail lines that were later grouped into United. When United was organized in 1934, Patterson became its first president. Making way last week for George E. Keck, president since 1963 and United's new chief executive, Patterson allowed himself one small lapse into nostalgia. "I have great respect for marketing and research and for cost accountants," he said. "But I'm glad they weren't around...