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Last updated on November 16, 2024.

C. R. Smith

Cyrus Rowlett "C.R." Smith was the CEO of American Airlines from 1934 to 1968 and from 1973 to 1974. He was also the wartime deputy commander of the Air Transport Command during World War II, and the United States Secretary of Commerce for a brief period under President Lyndon B. Johnson. He is regarded as one of the titans of U.S. airline history.

September 9, 1899 - April 4, 1990

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These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell.

C. R. Smith

C. R. Smith

The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.

C. R. Smith

C. R. Smith

It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers. — © C. R. Smith

It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.

C. R. Smith

C. R. Smith

A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life.

C. R. Smith

C. R. Smith

We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just from being first.

C. R. Smith

C. R. Smith

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