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...nearly 1,000 shoestring air-cargo lines started by ex-service airmen after World War II, only a handful survived. Last week the two biggest survivors, Robert W. Prescott's Flying Tiger Line, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 5, 1945 et seq.) and Tom and Earl Slick's Slick Airways, Inc. (TIME, Jan. 28, 1946 et seq.), decided to cut the number still more by merging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Air-Cargo Wedding | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...Donkey, by H. F. M. Prescott. Vivid, fictional chronicle of 16th century Yorkshire (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Dec. 22, 1952 | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

...Dewey's bare 50% in 1948). From there on, the Republican Connecticut sweep was swift and devastating. At 9:30, Democratic Senator Bill Benton conceded the victory of Republican William Purtell and gloomily predicted a nationwide victory for Ike. Minutes later. Democrat A. A. Ribicoff conceded to Republican Prescott Bush in Connecticut's other Senate race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Election Night | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...another. Recently appointed Senator William A. Purtell, a Hartford manufacturer, ran so far ahead of Senator William Benton, a onetime adman, that Benton conceded three hours after the polls closed. In the race for the second Senate seat (a four-year term to replace the late Brien McMahon), Prescott Bush, member of the same Wall Street brokerage firm as Averell Harriman, beat Representative Abraham Ribicoff, the best Democratic vote-getter in the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Make-Up of the 83rd | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...Donkey, by H. F. M. Prescott. Vivid, fictional chronicle of the 16th century Yorkshire rising against Henry VIII (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Nov. 10, 1952 | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

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