Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refused to cross the clerks' picket lines. His pilots walked out after Baker fired one of them when his plane crashed. Baker hired a new staff and kept his planes flying, but he could no longer make his airline pay, especially as travelers were leary of his new help. Even after the clerks returned to work two months ago, his planes went out more than half empty, and in twelve months he lost $1,907,347. Recently he began to discuss merging with Delta...
...that CAB was being unnecessarily harsh. The grounding of the DC-6s had laid up his four newest planes last winter, and, until recently, when its air mail subsidies were upped, National had received the lowest (2½? a mile) rates in the industry. Baker has already enlisted the help of the governor of Florida, and the Miami Chamber of Commerce will fight CAB's proposal at the hearing Dec. 1. Even the strikers were worried at the prospect that their jobs might be wiped out for good. Said one union leader: "We'd rather go back...
...empire, Henry Kaiser announced a big deal to expand his Fontana steel mill. As usual, it was somewhat complicated. In return for $60 million worth of Fontana steel, the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Co. (which plans an 1,840-mile natural-gas pipeline from Texas to New York) will help Kaiser finance a $17-million blast furnace to double Fontana's 1,200-ton daily capacity of pig iron...
...Supreme Court. But she doesn't want to marry him, and she hates the way he calls her up during working hours. She is also carrying on a sort of wry flirtation with an aggressive ichthyologist (Don Taylor), who is trying, with no help from her, to put through a personal phone call direct to the President. So she stands both of them up in order to keep a date with a Navy lieutenant (Edmond O'Brien), who is the pet of the White House. However, the lieutenant is nominally engaged to the daughter of a newspaper publisher...
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