Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Show-Me State. In key Missouri, the Democrats scored an upset. The victor: tall, silver-haired Phil M. Donnelly, veteran state legislator. The loser: his fellow townsman (Lebanon) Jean Paul Bradshaw...
...rights. In Seattle he reeled off the names of the interlocking and overlapping federal bureaus which now deal with, and delay, every question of labor policy. That he had flicked a raw spot was made clear last week in speeches in the New York Times Hall by Labor Leaders Phil Murray, Robert J. Watt and David B. Robertson, who spoke with anger at having to carry every little problem to a bickering Government...
...every branch of the industry heard the news with incredulity. Phil Johnson was only 49. He had called the bets for the company since its ramshackle beginnings; he had shouldered the vast problem of expanding Flying Fortress production after Pearl Harbor; he was counted on to steer Boeing's postwar course...
Boeing Air Transport, which was later incorporated into United Airlines, was the first radio-equipped transport line; the first with stewardesses, one of the earliest with pilots in uniform. In 1933 Phil Johnson built the first all-metal, twin-engined transport-the famed Boeing 247, which instantly outmoded the hodgepodge of U.S. aircraft equipment...
Boeing's emphasis on design had produced the two most famous heavy bombers in the world. But its future is as foggy as is that of all planemakers. Boeing will miss Phil Johnson's clear foresight...