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...Leaders. The Big Three of the private-plane industry are Cessna Aircraft Co., whose President Dwane Wallace is called the "Henry Ford of the light-plane business"; Beech Aircraft Corp., whose President Olive Ann Beech is the only woman to boss a big plane maker, and Piper Aircraft Corp., whose President William T. Piper is the dean of the industry...
...Detroit of the small-plane industry is Wichita, Kans., where the two biggest companies-Cessna and Beech-account for 70% of all the dollars spent on light planes. Between them, they offer customers twelve different models, priced from $7,000 to $210,000. Beech concentrates mainly on higher-priced planes, while Cessna rules the middle and lower brackets. And though Beech leads in total business, with 1957 sales of $104 million (66% military), Cessna is the world's biggest private-plane builder, with commercial sales of 2,489 planes worth $33 million (total sales: $70 million). First-quarter fiscal...
...entertainment of union chiefs and their friends, the local kept a 40-ft. Chris-Craft cruiser, a mountain cabin, a twin-engined Beech airplane; two Local No. 3 officials admitted that they once used the plane to fly to five different cities to cash $2,000 expense checks so it would look as though the money was being spent for campaigning...
...Pittsburgh Post-Gazette suggested that the waiting correspondents could well sing the new ditty, I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles. Cabled the Chicago Daily News's Keyes Beech from Hong Kong: "In the opinion of the correspondents, the Dulles statement authorizing them to travel to China (TIME, Sept. 2) was deliberately and provocatively contrived to leave the Reds no choice but to refuse." At his regular news conference, Secretary of State Dulles said that the U.S. would "consider on its merits" any application by a Chinese newsman to enter the U.S. To some, this seemed...
...China, which first offered to admit a limited number of U.S. correspondents a year ago, has not since renewed the invitation. On the assumption that the visas would be forthcoming, a number of old China hands began packing their bags. Among them: the Chicago Daily News's Keyes Beech, the Baltimore Sun's Phil Potter, the New York Times's Tillman Durdin, TIME-LIFE'S James Burke (who was a TIME-LIFE correspondent in Peking from 1947 io 1949). This week Radio Peking gave an answer that started some of them unpacking again. The Dulles decision...