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...worst. On one of its dark days, dour Donald W. Douglas rolled his first postwar plane, the DC-6, out of his Santa Monica plant. A fat-bellied big brother of the famed DC-4, the plane was sold to United Air Lines, Inc. and its boss William Allan Patterson, who looks and sometimes sounds like a small, precise adding machine. Patterson thought that his new buy was a good plane. And his line badly Heeded such a plane. But he had no intention of putting it into service until he was sure. He had seen what had happened...
...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...
Slightly slower but more comfortable than the flashy Connie, the DC-6 will carry as many as 56 passengers at a cruising speed of 300 m.p.h., make transcontinental runs in nine to ten hours (cost: $685.000, plus radio). But what Patterson and all airline men fervently hoped was that it would win back the friends the airlines had lost...
...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...
...Businessman Griffis prepared to depart, another U.S. businessman quit the Foreign Service. Richard C. Patterson Jr., onetime vice chairman of the board of RKO, resigned the ambassadorship to the Russian-dominated government of Yugoslavia, where he had been as frustrated as Lane was in Poland. Private interests required his attention, said Patterson. As his successor, Harry Truman picked a State Department careerist: 52-year-old Cavendish Welles Cannon, whose large, pale, triangular face has been appearing in the trouble spots of southern Europe for 20 years, most recently in Lisbon, where he was First Secretary and Consul...