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...Chkalov's host after he and his over-the-top crew had unexpectedly landed at Pearson Field, the Army's air base at Vancouver, Wash.: Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall, commander of the Army post...
...patrol planes, pilotless aircraft and other equipment. (Martin's current backlog of military orders: about $75 million.) To help get the company squarely back on its feet, aging (64) President Glenn Martin moved himself up as chairman and brought in 43-year-old C. C. (for Chester Charles) Pearson, a onetime executive of Douglas Aircraft and a vice president of Curtiss-Wright, as his successor. With a sharp eye on overhead, Pearson sold off Martin's sidelines and managed to pay off all but $3,000,000 of the RFC loan...
Next week President Pearson will have more good news to report: in 1949 the company got into the black for the first time in three years; insiders estimated the net at $5.000,000 on sales of $50 million. This year, as it rolls 4-0-45 off the assembly line, the company hopes to do even better. Though such an industry leader as Boeing has lost money on postwar commercial planes, Pearson thinks that the Martin...
...Pearson, relentless in scalping others, bellowed as loudly as any victim of his own snickersnee. To Courier-Journal Publisher Mark Ethridge he fired off a testy, 2,000-word complaint about Day's aggressive and "unreasonable" attitude. Pearson even telephoned one of Reporter Day's former employers, Publisher James M. Cox of the Dayton, Ohio News, to check up on Day, triumphantly informed the Courier-Journal that Cox thought Day an "egotistical ass." As for Day's findings, Pearson brushed off the whole thing as a "how-many-angels-can-stand-on-the-point-of-a-needle...
Tolerantly, the Courier-Journal printed Pearson's windy demurral as a full-page ad, free of charge. But last week the Courier-Journal also spoke its mind about Pearson's conceptions of accuracy: "The essential question which Pearson missed [is whether] the 'Merry-Go-Round,' which assaults many community and individual reputations, [is] based on sound and careful reporting . . . and [presents] its material fairly ... To take undocumented personal recollections and use them as [official] statistics is journalistic irresponsibility...