Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aircraft Co. this week lifted some of the secrecy surrounding hush-hush projects. The company has put two guided missiles on an assembly line and production is up 60% over 1951. It is also spending "hundreds of millions of dollars" on 15 other missile projects. In the commercial jet transport race, Douglas' entry is now in wooden mock-up and $1,000,000 has been spent...
...transport business, on the contrary, does no require technical training for executive positions. If graduates are willing to start out behind the ticket counter or in other equally trivial jobs, they can work up to positions of responsibility...
Last week Robert Sprague snapped shut his bags and quietly headed back to Massachusetts. This week Chicago Lawyer James Henderson Douglas Jr., 53, who was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in 1932-33 and (as an Air Force colonel) chief of staff of the Air Transport Command during World War II, agreed to take...
...laude) to be an astronomer. But when he learned to fly as an Army pilot, the aviation bug got him. He joined Curtiss Aeroplane, became boss of a St. Louis branch in ten years, rose to president in 1935. In the late 1930s he learned about commercial air transport by joining American Airlines as vice president in charge of operations. In World War II the War Department asked him to boss Republic Aviation to speed up production of badly needed P47 Thunderbolt fighters. He returned to American in 1943, was named president two years later...
Flying Speed. All of T.W.A.'s pre-World War II equipment, including the five famed old Boeing Stratoliners. was sold off. The nucleus of World War II's Air Transport Command, they had flown for ten years and 25 million miles without a single accident.* With his 43 new Constellations (including ten Super Connies) and 52 short-haul Martins (including 40 pressurized 404s), Damon has greatly increased T.W.A.'s carrying capacity...