Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pair of Huff-Daland crop-dusting airplanes in Georgia. And Captain Eddie Rickenbacker-Hannifin calls him "great, truly fearless and fascinatingly irascible"-who built Eastern Air Lines by flying DC-3's to remote East Coast outposts along what he called "Tobacco Road" routes. Alexander G. Hardy, former Senior Vice President of National Airlines, once hid overnight at Hannifin's apartment during an industry feud. Perhaps the most farsighted of them all was Juan Trippe, First Chief of Pan Am. Recalls Hannifin: "He kept telling me, 'We can make it easier for people to fly in bigger...
...Americans living or traveling abroad, the dollar's week-long oscillations added yet more irritation to the once enjoyable experience of spending U.S. dollars overseas. At present exchange rates, a U.S. Army lieut. colonel stationed in Japan earns less than senior Japanese guards ($25,900) employed at the base near Tokyo. In Paris, where the French franc hit a three-year high against the dollar and a Coca-Cola costs $1.25, California Tourist William Warrell glumly observed: "I don't see how people can travel anymore. I really...
...buyers thought minks were becoming an endangered species and South Africa's mines were giving out. Reports John Eyler, merchandising manager for Oregon's Meier and Frank department stores: "We've never sold so much fine china or silver. It's selling like crazy." Adds Lasker Meyer, senior vice president of the Houston-based Foley's chain: "Our big-ticket items have been very strong...
...investigation began in August of 1975 and was headed by Theodore Souris, a former Michigan Supreme Court justice who is now a senior partner in the prestigious Detroit law firm of Bodman, Longley, Bogle and Armstrong. The financial aspects of the probe were directed by Norman A. Bolz, partner in the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand. Before the probe ended, 500 interviews had been conducted, and 50 Ford executives, among many others, had been questioned, Iacocca learned of the dimensions of the probe only from friends and business associates who had been grilled...
Biographer A. Scott Berg, who began this project as a Princeton senior thesis eight years ago, thus had to struggle with his subject, trying to make a hero out of a man who always fancied himself a spear carrier. In preparation, Berg sifted through Perkins' massive correspondence, including an unsuspected cache of platonic and rather wistful love letters to a younger woman, and interviewed everyone he could find who had a Perkins anecdote to tell. The result is a draw. Perkins emerges as both anonymous and heroic...