Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soggy pastures that cattlemen feared deaths would reach 270,000. Deaths already had decimated Collier County's 25,000 herd, and the area's spring calf crop was expected to be only 10 to 15 liveborn calves per 100 cows, v. 75 in normal years. A pilot who flew over the ranch area said he saw dead and dying cattle "in every direction. It is a field day for the buzzards...
...these churches would react if Jews were to begin to convert Christians to Judaism." To explore these problems, Gordis proposes a conference of all Jewish national organizations, lay and rabbinic. Before such a Semitic summit meeting, Gordis would lay a "two-pronged program." Prong No. I : a pilot mission to Japan, which "would not encounter the difficulties that might arise in a country in which Christianity is dominant." Prong No. 2: information centers on Judaism throughout...
...Ministers forthwith signed a treaty that formalized the steps already progressively taken, and the Benelux Economic Union, the world's fourth largest foreign trader, was officially born. "There is no longer any doubt that we will stay united," declared Belgium's Premier Achille Van Acker. As a pilot plant for the European Common Market, in which the three small nations are joined with France, West Germany and Italy, Benelux augured well...
Beech and Cessna might be one huge company today were it not for a personality clash between Walter Beech, a Tennessee farm boy turned pilot, and Clyde Cessna, another farm boy from Kansas. The two started off together, formed Travel Air Co. in 1925 with Cessna as president, Beech as sales manager. But after building two types of planes, one of which was the first commercial aircraft to fly the Pacific to Hawaii, Cessna went off to form his own company. Beech merged Travel Air with Curtiss-Wright and later, in 1932, formed his own company...
...Pilot Beech's only trouble was making a profit: he was no financial man, left most of the details to his wife Olive Ann, and the company barely kept aloft. Cessna had even deeper problems. In the Depression he had to close his plant. What saved the company was Cessna's nephews, Dwane and Dwight Wallace, one an aeronautical engineer who once worked for Beech, the other a lawyer. By sweet-talking creditors they reopened the plant, and, though Clyde Cessna sat as president until he retired in 1934, the man in charge was Dwane Wallace, then only...