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When twelve combat veterans of Major General Claire Chennault's famed Flying Tigers sank their savings into an airline in 1945, they were sold on the future of air freight. But, as one Flying Tiger Line executive moaned: "The only trouble is, we've often gone nearly broke trying to get other people to see it." Last week the Tiger Line thought that people were beginning to see things its way. On a gross of $4,964,168, some 60% higher than last year, the line reported a $500,346 net profit (including a $183,500 carryback credit...
...Tigers are not an all-freight line yet: more than $1.5 million of last year's revenue came from special charter jobs; another $961,000 came from repairing and maintaining ships of foreign airlines. As Robert William Prescott, 37, the hustling Tiger president, put it: "We've had to get our development money wherever we could find it." Prescott found it by flying anything, anywhere, at any time, from railroad wheels and loads of gravel to globe-girdling tours for college students, and the Pacific airlift (TIME, Aug. 21). Other jobs...
...album, the arrangements were done largely by Leroy Anderson '28. Anderson's Princeton medley has been replaced this year, however, by an arrangement by John Finnegan '47. Finnegan's "Tiger Medley" was performed for the first time at last season's Princeton game...
Bill O'Dwyer was forever denouncing Tammany Hall, which the late Fiorello La Guardia had all but smashed, but when election time came around, he would be found, cozy in the corner of the Tammany tiger. Recently, ex-Cop O'Dwyer disturbed many a New Yorker by denouncing a prosecutor who was investigating crookedness on the police force (TIME, July...
...Dean Inge found only one thing to be thankful for: "That the hideous hellfire theology is heard no longer in our churches." Today, he said, clergymen are ashamed to use such appeals as did colonial New England's Jonathan Edwards, who warned: "You cannot stand before an infuriated tiger. What will you do when God rushes upon you in His wrath...