Word: wien
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the Emperor Franz Josef presided over the opening of the huge sandstone operatic palace. In the pit last week was Conductor Josef Krips, who revived Don in 1945 in the grim days immediately after the war, when the company took temporary refuge in the Theater an der Wien...
...heads after leaving high school at 16. Rising from office boy to rent collector to building manager to broker, he performed so well that his name went on the company's title before he was 30. Later, as a specialist in syndicate purchasing, Helmsley joined with Lawrence Wien, a Manhattan lawyer and investor, and began putting together his realty domain. The Empire State Building, which they bought in 1961 for $65 million, is the crown jewel, but their widespread holdings include shopping centers in Fort Wayne, Ind., and Decatur, Ill., apartment projects in Indianapolis and St. Louis, and Chicago...
...Raymond I. Petersen ar rived from Chicago and formed a flying service to compete with Wien and others. After taking over some smaller operators, Petersen renamed his operation Northern Consolidated Airlines, an impressive title for a ragtag conglomeration of hard-drinking pilots and overworked aircraft. Petersen, who will be chairman of the new company, recalls that the biggest toll of pilots was not taken by crashes, but by alcohol...
Chicago to Siberia. For all the new jets, many of Wien Alaska's 81 pilots will continue to fly De Havilland Otters and Harland Skyvans. Their cargo may include anything from a load of snaggle-horned reindeer to groceries for Catholic missions at Eskimo villages on the Chuckchee Sea. Among their touchdown locations: Goodnews Bay, site of a platinum mine, and Katmai, where N.C.A. owns a world-famous trout camp. In 1967, Wien hauled some 5,000 passengers on its packaged Arctic tour, winding up at the line's Kotzebue Hotel location...
Even with the Wien N.C.A. merger, Alaska still has eight C.A.B. regulated airlines. This will soon change. Already merged are Cordova with Alaska Airlines, which now plans to take over small Alaska Coastal Airlines. Seeing this trend toward bigness among the competition, Chairman Petersen and President Sigurd Wien, the only family member still active, are seeking to expand the new line's routes to nearby Siberia and faraway Chicago...