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...Cohu (rhymes with show-you), T.W.A. had an experienced pilot at the stick. A World War I Navy flyer, Cohu first peddled aviation securities before he moved into the operating end of the industry. In 1930 he started Interstate Airlines, now part of Eastern Air-Lines, moved on to become a director and president of Aviation Corp. in its early, money-losing days. With Jack Northrop, Cohu organized Northrop Aircraft, Inc. in 1939, served as its board chairman and general manager until he resigned a fortnight...
...High Flyer, a nitrate-laden sister of the Grandcamp, was afire and might explode any minute...
...glow of the unquenchable fire. Sometimes squads of rescuers staggered for cover when a change of wind whipped the .blistering heat around. Among them was Father William Roach, of St. Mary's Catholic Church. Father Roach died with his rescue squad when, at 1:11 a.m., the High Flyer mushroomed like the Bikini bomb...
Primitive Terror. The High Flyer explosion, which was recorded by a seismograph in Denver, did more than sink a neighboring freighter and rake the remains of Texas City. It stirred a primitive terror. A wild evacuation jammed the roads out of town...
...break Howard Hughes's round-the-world record of 91 hours, 14 minutes. He bought an A26 Douglas attack bomber, removed some 8,000 Ibs. of armor plate, crammed the plane full of gas tanks. He hired William P. Odom, a wartime transatlantic ferry pilot and China "Hump" flyer, to fly trie plane, and T. Carroll Sallee as engineer. Reynolds himself, who holds a private pilot's license, was "navigator," a euphemistic way of spelling passenger...