Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Cossacks, then Negroes. Frenchmen are so tired of conflict that even conservative De Gaulle talks of making France a balance between the U.S. and Russia. Said Marc Leroy, a bank clerk: "What a pity we cannot transport France to some place which is not in the middle. I would choose America. But," he added hastily, "I do not want to choose...
Once, at an Air Transport Association meeting, Eastern Air Lines President Eddie Rickenbacker complained that he hadn't been informed of certain matters. Patterson snapped: "If you'd quit sitting on a life raft in the Pacific all your life you'd understand these things. We discussed them at our last meeting." Rickenbacker whipped back: "Yes, and it's little sonovabitches like you that make me wish I was back there...
...soon proved himself wrong. When the operator of a fledgling airline, Pacific Air Transport, was granted a $5,000 loan, Patterson was put on the account. As most airlines were then regarded as being in the same class as fly-by-night carnivals, the bank took a somewhat dim view of the loan. Patterson brightened his employer's view by getting the loan paid off, but he soon found himself more interested in flying than in banking. Through his new concern with aviation he met the late P. G. Johnson, president of Boeing Aircraft, who was then helping William...
...Herlihy, a onetime Navy and airlines pilot, now United's operations manager; Harold Crary, a onetime newspaperman who handles United's advertising, publicity and traffic; Hal E. Nourse, who runs the economics planning section; and Ray Ireland, ex-colonel and deputy chief of staff of the Air Transport Command (he gave Elliott Roosevelt's dog, Blaze, his ill-famed plane ride). Ireland makes the policy decisions when Patterson is not available...
That was why, when Bouças was in the U.S. last January, Brazil's Finance Minister Correia e Castro cabled him so urgently. The Government wanted 50,000 trucks, wanted them fast, and had the dollars to pay for them. In bettered transport it saw a way of moving food from farm to market, and thus of hitting inflation and the black market. The Communists were making hay out of skyrocketing food prices, and the Government was worried...