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From Mr. Cord Avco also took over a labor problem. Last winter he reduced pilots' wages, came into conflict with the Airline Pilots Association, affiliated with the A. F. of L. (TIME, Feb. 22). The 23 pilots of Century Air Lines quit (they charged a "lock-out") and service was interrupted until a "strikebreaking" crew was trained. By the sale to Avco a complete operating personnel of 350 is thrown out of work. Last week, in his apartment in the tower of Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria, Mr. Cord intimated that the pilots (about 50 including Century Pacific's) would...
...take the American Airways job, Col. Rickenbacker resigned the vice-presidency of General Aviation Corp. (General Motors affiliate) in which his prime job had been to sell Fokker planes. (Since the withdrawal of stormy "Tony"' Fokker, General has quit building the Fokker line.) Hainer Hinshaw had headquarters in Washington where he was one of aviation's most potent lobbyists. He has joined United Air Lines. Vice President Ricken-backer's headquarters will be in Manhattan but his duties may take him frequently to the Capital...
...Bengali "So" means "farewell" or "I quit." A report of the East India Company misprinted the figure...
...woman's love for a horse. Though critics, with few exceptions, have extolled the splendor and intensity of Poet Jeffers' works, some women think that he spoils his poems with such outrageous themes. Even his wife complained. "Robin," said she after he had finished "Roan Stallion," "when will you quit forbidden themes?" Robin answered with an enigmatic smile. To him, there is nothing in his writings either "surprising or subversive, but the mere common sense of our predicament as passionate bits of earth and water." To dignify men's passions, men's predicaments, he had merely motivated his tragedies with...
...interview. "Those teachers made me keep on taking Greek and Greek and more Greek until I just couldn't stand it any more, so I ups to the principal and says, "I can't do this stuff, I never wanted to, and still don't and never will. I quit this school right now, and to the devil with...