Word: thunderbird
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thunderbird's Egg. Southwest's majority owners, ex-Test Pilot John H. Connelly, 48, president, and Cinemagent & Play Producer Leland Hayward, board chairman, hatched the airline from their wartime partnership in the Thunderbird cadet flying schools (TIME, June 9, 1941) and their wartime cargo line across the Pacific. At war's end, with $2,000,000 in capital and the backing of such Hollywood bigwigs as Jimmy Stewart, Brian Aherne and Darryl Zanuck, they got a three-year experimental charter from CAB for their West Coast feeder service...
...dream of rain making is as old as man. For centuries, Chinese suppliants, barechested, short-trousered, and wearing bands of green grass about their heads, have paraded with their dragons and beaten gongs to bring rain. In the U.S., Indians still propitiate the Thunderbird with symbolic dances...
...pastel-tinted, rambling ranch houses and hangars of "Thunderbird One," the Institute planned to train a new kind of cadet, the young businessman or diplomat prepping for a Latin-American career. Yount's salary as president of "Thunderbird College": $1,000 a month...
Students at "Thunderbird College" will be taught Spanish and Portuguese by Army speed-up techniques, learn to appreciate what Dunne calls "such splendid institutions as the siesta." By last week the Institute had accepted 119 applications, hoped to enroll 250 students before Oct. 1. Biggest source of prospects: such export-minded businesses as the Sperry Corp., Pan American Airways. Tuition: $1,450 (room and board included...
...discount to "Thunderbird College" was being studied by the House Surplus Property Committee. Said Chairman Roger C. Slaughter (D., Mo.): "This may be a perfectly legitimate enterprise, but it is worth looking into." Among Thunderbird's backers: five Phoenix and New York banks, several U.S. firms doing business in Latin America...