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...William Edward Boeing? He was angered by a 1934 U.S. Government decision forcing him to split his aircraft manufacturing company and his newly thriving airmail and passenger service. He therefore let go of the carrier that is now known as United Air Lines, the U.S.'s largest domestic trunk line. He became so embittered that he sold out all his Boeing Co. holdings and never after 1934 played an active part in running his own company. He died...
...volume read like a Chinese Kinsey report. The cult of the lotus inspired a corollary cult of the shoe. Many a young man slept with a slipper that belonged to his beloved-indeed, an elderly Chinese ambassador to Moscow made no secret of the fact that he carried a trunk of tiny shoes and, as Levy puts it, "privately amused himself with them...
...Braniff, ninth largest of the trunk lines, flamboyant Harding Lawrence, 46, took charge last year and has already lifted its earnings 58% by tripling its jet fleet and adding such eye-catching innovations as ocher-painted planes, gaudy interior decor and hostesses in Pucci dresses...
...strike by 35,400 members of the International Association of Machinists grounded carriers that fly 61½% of all U.S. airline passenger-miles, carry 70% of the nation's air mail, 73% of its air freight. At the behest of the Civil Aeronautics Board, six other trunk carriers and 13 regional airlines feverishly reshuffled schedules and added what extra flights they could to meet the demand for seats...
...Panther-that name may change before the car's introduction in September-is Chevrolet's belated answer to Mustang. It has much the same long hood, set-back passenger compartment and squat trunk of the Mustang, will have about the same average price...