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...someday every man would fly around in his own plane almost as easily as he drove his car. The boom soon collapsed; private planes were not only high priced, but most owners found them impractical because of their short range, slow speed and high maintenance cost. Such planemakers as Piper, Cessna and Beech then smartly went after the new corporate market. The first purchases of many corporations had been war-surplus planes ranging from light trainers to C-47s and two-engine attack bombers. But most corporations found them either so costly to operate or so unsuited to their needs...
Briefcase barnstorming shows every sign of growing still more. What was once the "president's plane" has become a management taxi for practically everybody. And after a company buys one plane, perhaps a Piper Tri-Pacer, it often moves up to a larger Beech Twin-Bonanza. The second just about sells itself as corporations discover that they need different planes for different uses...
Certain lords of the canned comment have demurred to this: they accept the explanation but' hold Truman and his predecessor responsible for the climate of opinion. They have developed a Pied Piper theory of presidential leadership, with a main thesis that a pair of malicious individuals single-handedly bent all of society to their purposes. This is surely fatuous. Roosevelt and Truman may well have been at fault, when viewed with the aid of hindsight, for not restraining the high vintage liberalism of their twenty years in office more efficiently, but no one man can create such a spirit...
...Jefferson, Iowa, the Cossets found a farmer foursome on the golf course ("French peasants will play golf the day that the Versailles Palace becomes a drive-in restaurant"), other farmers who fly their own Piper Cubs as much as 600 miles for a Sunday pleasure jaunt. Industrial workers were also plainly more prosperous in the U.S. than their French counterparts: in Pittsburgh, the Cossets met Patrick N. O'Connell, a rolling-mill foe man with a wife and eight children, who owns a station wagon, a TV set, his own home, gets no such "family allotment" as fecund Frenchmen...
Missionary Rohrbacher set out to get some money. He went to New York City and Chicago and made speeches, finally raised enough to build a parochial grammar school and high school and two churches. Then, to get around among his scattered flock, he took flying lessons and piloted a Piper Cub from county to county...