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...soon proved himself wrong. When the operator of a fledgling airline, Pacific Air Transport, was granted a $5,000 loan, Patterson was put on the account. As most airlines were then regarded as being in the same class as fly-by-night carnivals, the bank took a somewhat dim view of the loan. Patterson brightened his employer's view by getting the loan paid off, but he soon found himself more interested in flying than in banking. Through his new concern with aviation he met the late P. G. Johnson, president of Boeing Aircraft, who was then helping William...
...Patterson does not pretend to do the farming. He lets the caretaker and his wife do the chores. "The extent of my help," he gags, "is when I hold a chicken while someone doses it with an eye dropper." Usually he spends his time horseback riding, fishing in his lake or playing catch with his son. When mink began to eat his fish recently, the caretaker trapped the mink, and they are being made into a neckpiece for Mrs. Patterson...
Bottom of the Ladder. That Patterson became an airman was due largely to chance. But he came honestly by his liking for hard work. He was born on Oahu Island, where his father was overseer of a sugar plantation. A tireless man, his father often wore out three horses in the course of a day's riding about the fields. He died when Billy, as he was then called, was 8. Young Billy and his mother, who worked in different places while Billy sandwiched in his hit-or-miss schooling, traveled back & forth between San Francisco and Hawaii. When...
...trust-busting New Dealers took over the Government. They promptly canceled all airmail contracts because of "collusion" between the airline operators in setting rates, split up Bill Boeing's trust and "exiled" Johnson from the airline business for five years. In the crisis, there was no one but Patterson to take on the job of running United, and pull it out of its tailspin (United's stock fell from $35 a share just before the cancellation order to $14 when the Army took over the mail routes). Patterson won back all but one of the canceled contracts...
...turned out to be a great day for United also. The line, skillfully put together, tapped the richest, most heavily traveled U.S. routes. Now it needed the right kind of management to pay off. Pat Patterson supplied the management. He emphasized safety and regularity rather than speed. He pioneered safety gadgets, tried out new ideas to get riders on his planes. Example: for a time he carried the wives of men on business trips free, to get them over their objections to their husbands' flying...