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...Dallas one day last week a sharply tailored old man climbed into a custom-built beige Chrysler, and headed through the wahooing streets to the fair grounds. There, with a minimum of speechifying, Bob Thornton, 73, snipped a ribbon with a pair of diamond-studded shears and proclaimed the opening of the 1953 State Fair-the biggest in Texas and therefore, in Texan logic, the biggest in the world. Then, as the calliope tuned up and the first of more than two million fairgoers poured down the midway, Thornton turned sadly back to the city and the unfinished business...
...echelon of men who had built up the company had quit, and the Air Force was frantically trying to keep the quarrel from slowing up the building of fighter planes. Hughes Aircraft's rise is partly the work of a onetime Ford industrial management expert named Charles ("Tex") Thornton, who became vice president and assistant general manager, and two of the nation's top electronics engineers, Simon Ramo, who came from General Electric...
Dean Wooldridge, who came from Bell Laboratories. On Thornton's advice, Hughes had decided to give up the crowded field of airframe building and concentrate on electronics, reportedly over the strenuous objection of Noah Dietrich, his chief industrial adviser. Ramo and Wooldridge, because of their standing among electronic engineers-and with unlimited funds provided by Hughes-were able to round up many of the top experts in the country. Hughes also persuaded General Harold George, wartime boss of the Air Transport Command, to join the company, and he became vice president and general manager. Sales, which had been about...
...fortnight ago, Ramo and Wooldridge quit to form their own company; five other executives submitted their resignations. Last week Thornton and George quit, too. Said General George: "I would like to paraphrase Churchill. I do not intend to preside over the liquidation of the Hughes organization, and so help me God, if present policies are persisted in, the liquidation is inevitable." But Howard Hughes disagreed, said that only a handful of his 17,000 employees had left and that production would not be hampered...
...gloom, I had been standing about a pace from the President, almost shouting in his face. Colorado Governor Dan Thornton, who was playing with the President that day, found Granby for me while the President and I chatted. Or, rather, the President talked and I gulped, trying to think of just how you go about apologizing for shouting in the President's face. The President allowed that it was great weather, that the course was in fine shape and that his game was going pretty well ('I got a birdie on the first hole this morning...