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...Transport and General Workers Union...
...soupy weather over San Francisco's Crissy Field one day in 1927, a pilot of Pacific Air Transport circled and sweated, trying to land. On the ground, other P.A.T. men laid bets that he would never get down alive. But he did ground...
...They cut costs, won new business by maintaining rigid delivery schedules, turned a profit inside a month. In 1949, P.I.E. highballed 407,000 ton miles of freight across country for an estimated gross of $14,250,000, making it one of the biggest U.S. truckers. (The biggest: Associated Transport's motor freight system, with a $25.3 million gross in 1948.) But that wasn't big enough for Humphries & Johnson...
...Note of Praise. After serving overseas in the Army Transportation Corps in World War II, Captain Glynn applied for a job with the Government's Institute of Inter-American Affairs. To make sure he got it, he added a few nonexistent qualifications: two years at Brown, a degree from Stevens Institute of Technology, a big job with a big trucking company. He got the job, and his transport survey for the Colombian government won him a warm note of praise from the Minister of Public Works. After that the U.S. Commerce Department hired Jim at $10,000 a year...
Then ECA needed a high-level expert to formulate and carry out its transport policy in Greece. Jim Glynn's application blank-embellished with a few more additions-was studded with so many achievements that ECA hired him on the spot at $12,000 a year and sent him to Greece. He did his usual competent job. But after five months, ECA suddenly told him his work was unsatisfactory and fired...