Word: erraticism
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One World. With it, ambitious Jack Frye had another dream; he hoped to make T.W.A. the No. 1 round-the-world airline. But erratic, unpredictable Howard Hughes began to balk at the money Frye was spending. Frye tried to persuade Hughes that overseas expansion would pay off in the end...
No one knows what happened next, or why. Haskew never called the tower. The CAA noticed later that the signal from the Winston-Salem radio range was weak and erratic. At 1:43 a.m. the plane smashed into the 2,200-ft. Blue Ridge foothills near Galax, Va., northwest of...
In Italy the departure of U.S. troops had cut the supply of cigarets to the point where a cigaret currency crisis had set in. The value of a carton was as erratic as that of a lira. Enterprising Italians were doing their best to restabilize by "importing" cigarets by mass...
All the news about T.W.A. seemed bad last week. The TWA Constellation Star of Cairo cracked up in Eire, killing twelve (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). And the partnership between thin, erratic Howard Hughes, who controls T.W.A., and roly-poly, even-tempered Jack Frye, who runs it, cracked up. But the second...
The other three: Ted Schroeder, Frank Parker, Gardnar Mulloy. Just who would be in the singles or doubles was anybody's guess. Left off: San Francisco's brilliant but erratic Tom Brown, unpredictable Billy Talbert (see PEOPLE).