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Lest this cut throat competition spill too much of aviation's lifeblood, United's President William Allan Patterson approached T.W.A., American, Pan American and Eastern with a bold proposition: let them finance a common plane that would standardize equipment. Such a plane he foresaw as the DC-4. It would carry 42 passengers, four engines, travel at 240 m.p.h. Six months later the Big Five contracted not to invest in any transport heavier than 43,500 lbs. other than the DC-4. Each company could then be dealt one apiece for as many rounds as they mutually agreed...
...fell desperately in love with one of them, but was afraid to approach her. Naturally, no attractive young woman was going to tie herself for life to an earless young man. He fell to brooding. His devoted mother began to worry about him. She went to Dr. Allan Ragnell, distinguished Stockholm plastic surgeon, and asked him if he could remove her own ears, transplant them to the head...
...under exclusive contract, to make a batch of records. One number, which she had been singing at a new downtown hotspot called Café Society, she particularly wanted on wax. Called Strange Fruit, it had been written by a libertarian New York public school teacher named Lewis Allan and its lyric was a poetic description of a lynching's terrible finale. Billie liked its dirgelike blues melody, was not so much interested in the song's social content. But Vocalion was. The record was never made...
...room for most of the city's hot musicians-gave Billie and others a chance to hear her sing Strange Fruit, and also provided the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People a prime piece of musical propaganda. Unsqueamish, the Commodore had not balked at recording Teacher Allan's grim and gripping lyrics, which begin...
...Allan M. Sachs...