"LET'S TALK TURKEY" says
Smilin' Jack at Merc Meat.
THE TV A: Frank G. Clement,
Governor of Tennessee, says in a
letter to President Eisenhower,
“ i he truth is that private enter
prise cannot thrive—yea, cannot
live, without the whip of competi
tion. And that, if you p!en*e. is just
whet Congress intend : -n it put
TV A into the power business, and
that is just what TV A is today. . . .
The private-utility spokesmen have
been crying for some years about
the unfairness of TV A competi
tion. Rut they don't present any
figures to show who or how many
were put out of business. . . . To
bo exact in the matter, TV A. of
course, does not compete with pri
vate power companies in their re
spective franchise-protected terri
tories. riie competition is merely
by example and often it has been
by inducement. But it has been
effective."
* • *
THE FRENCH IN 1NDO
CHINA: “The feeling has grown that
France is no longer fighting this war in
its own interest but as a kind of inter
national holding operation to prevent
Communism from engulfing all South
east Asia The French don't care much
what happens in Indo-China. Just as
the American public got fed up with
the war in Korea, whose aims and pur
poses had become very confused, and
iust as in the last American elections
the promise to end the war in Korea
became one of the most popular issues,
so in France the war in Indo-China has
become a stick to beat any Government
with ''
* * •
HAVE BECK OF THE TEAM
STERS: Holding undisputed leader
ship of America's most powerful single
union, the Teamsters, and “with com
plete control of the men who drive
the trucks and handle the goods at
distribution points. Beck has the po
tential strength to make or break
strikes in hundreds of industries. John
L Lewis can still paralyze the national
economy, but this requires his carrying
on a costly war of attrition. He can
not single out one area or industry and
strangle it piecemeal. Beck can, at
relatively little cost to himself."
Excerpts from The Reporter Maca
zine. 220 East 42nd St.. New York
N Y
Oil Companies Use More
Planes Than All U.S.
Airlines Combined
LOS ANGELES — With some
oil companies operating their own
“airlines,” the U.S. oil industry
uses more planes than do the na
tion’s scheduled domestic, inter
national, territorial, and local
service airlines combined.
The 1,723 planes in the industry
fleet vary from helicopters to the
latest four-engined transports —
and last year flew an estimated
60 million miles.
One company owns 21 planes to
transport personnel and supplies
across two continents, carrying an
estimated 5,000 passengers each
year on trans - Atlantic flights
alone. The oil company airline
employs 325 persons, including
two aeronautical engineers and 42
pilots.
The oil industry planes have
also made the old-time prospector
and his burro a part of the past
by probing deep into the earth’s
crust with airborne magneto
meters in search for oil and min
eral deposits. In 1951, one Okla
homa operator flew 1,500 hours
in prospecting alone.
The tedious and expensive task
of patrolling thousands of miles of
pipelines has also been made
easier and less costly through use
of light utility planes to check for
breaks and leaks.
In 1951, 96 communities in 25
states had operators engaged in
chemical and oil company trans
portation. Pipeline patrol activi
ties were reported in 84 towns in
25 states, and 39 communities in
15 states reported operators en
gaged in mineral and oil pros
pecting.
The United States has about 10
per cent of the earth’s forest area
but produces about 50 per cent of
the world’s lumber, 42 per cent o»f
the wood pulp and 58 per cent of
the plywood.
"LET'S TALK TURKEY" says
Smilin' Jack ai Merc Meat.
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H. N. Peterson, company gener
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Peterson, 62, has served The Al
aska Line for 37 years, starting as
a temporary stenographer in 1916.
Born in Norway, he was three
months old when his parents
moved to Minneapolis.
J. D. Nelson, assistant general
traffic manager, who is retiring.
Nelson, 65, has completed 35 years
with The Alaska Line. A native of
Chicago, he has followed tariff
work from his first position there
in 1907.
W. J. Manahan, newly appointed
general traffic manager. He joined
The Alaska Line in 1948 as assis
tant general traffic manager, the
post which he has held until now.
Born in Le Mars, Iowa, he began
his shipping career in 1919 with
the Pacific Steamship Comapny.
Four hundred thousand pounds
of bombs, rockets and napalm —
and 100,000 rounds of 20 mm. am
munition—were delivered against
Communist 'targets in Korea by
one Marine jet fighter plane. This
same plane was later turned over
to the Navy—and flew an addi
tional 96 missions. Today, it is still
operational in the Pacific.
Argentine Christmas Custom
— Pan American World Airways Photo
In Argentina, the Christmas gift giver and rewarder of good
children is one of the Three Wise Men or the Kings from the
East of the Biblical Christmas story. The effect on South Ameri
can children is much the same as that produced by Santa Claus
in the United Stales, however, although the costume is different.
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