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...When we first got back to Washington, we got in early on the train and came out here. When General Doolittle didn't find us at the station, he jumped into a cab and came on out to see us all. When Dad and Mother came to Washington to see me, Dad was anxious to meet Jimmy. I knew he was busy, but I called his office at the War Department and asked if my father could come down there to see him. Hell, he came out here to meet them...
Moreover, Yerex' request for a license coincides with: 1) a Caribbean transport bottleneck so severe as to make it hard for CAB to turn down any airline equipped to fly there (and also hard for Pan Am to continue claiming that it could handle the job all alone); 2) a backlog of U.S. Army as well as South American good will for rush jobs he has been doing...
Nevertheless, Yerex still has one great stumbling block in his path. Since he is still a British subject (and TACA a Panamanian corporation) TACA must somehow be "Americanized" to suit the letter of the law. To CAB Yerex divulged a plan he had worked out to do just that: he wants to put all his TACA stock (over 85%) into a voting trust, to be engineered by Investment Bankers Schroder Rockefeller & Co. Over half the stock would be owned by Americans and all of the five voting trustees except Yerex himself would be U.S. citizens-among them Schroder Rockefeller Vice...
...week's end it still seemed possible that Yerex could work out a reorganization to meet this objection. But whether CAB would give him a license in the face of stiff Pan Am resistance remained to be seen. Only one thing was quite sure...
...stopped. Outside, almost buried, were a giant mallet locomotive and a mountain snowplow. U.P. General Manager William Martin Jeffers was telling the men he knew the job was dangerous but it had to be done. Not one to give an order he could not fill, Jeffers climbed into the cab. Drwn the winding right of way the engine and plow battled foot by foot. Every curve meant the danger of an avalanche. Every few minutes the motors stalled; everybody had to get out to shovel. A snow boulder stove in the cabside. The engineer was knocked out. Bill Jeffers jumped...