Word: planes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obliged to do such things as scrub floors and wear Linus blankets and suck their thumbs. But frequently they become unhappy in their work, and last year one pledge master was chained to a parking meter in front of the state capital, while another taskmaster was packed on a plane for California...
...chief product of Smith's typewriter is his short, sharp memos, which rarely exceed a page. They cover everything from ideas on a new plane American is considering buying to complaints about an airliner's coffee, are dispatched in a steady stream to every corner of American's operations. Wrote Smith, after noticing that souvenirs were distributed on a crack Captain's Flagship flight: "How long are you going to have them, and why have you got them...
...with careful planning. Smith hired him in 1947 when he was treasurer and controller of H. J. Heinz Co. ¶ William Littlewood, 60, vice president in charge of equipment research, is one of the world's leading aircraft engineers. He has made contributions to the development of every plane American has bought, worked for ten years with airframe makers to develop commercial jets. ¶ Thomas L. Boyd, 50, slender, intense vice president for flight, has been flying for more than a quarter-century. He joined American in 1934 as a pilot, became a captain two years later, rose through...
...most thoroughly flight-tested and debugged air transport ever to go into service, had 50,000 flying hours as a military tanker and commercial prototype before the first plane was delivered to American. The pilots are delighted with it-although their wage demands for the jet age may ground some of the airlines before the fight is over. The pilots insist that the third man in the jet cockpit be a pilot instead of an engineer (TIME, May 5), want more money ($45,000 a year for a Pan American flight captain v. $25,000 now) on grounds that...
Says Smith: "Sure, we could build a plane to go through the sound barrier right now. But we couldn't get our money back. We couldn't charge enough for a ticket." He expects the present jets to be around for a long time...