Airlines: Six at 61

Possibly because of his own size (6 ft. 4 in., 212 Ibs.), Continental Airlines President Robert Forman Six has an obsession about the company that he has headed for 30 years: he would like tenth-largest Continental to be the biggest in some aspect of the aviation industry. Last week, three days after his 61st birthday, Bob Six got his wish. At Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, Continental's president dedicated a new $6,500,000 air-cargo terminal that is the biggest such structure in the world. If it were picked up, straightened out and moved to...

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