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letsdothis3 ago

Well considering Dwight Eisenhower, SHAEF and his connections with Camp David, I thought I'd google his name with TWA:

https://www.twahotel.com/connie-airplane/conniehistory

SPEED DEMON : Commissioned in 1939 by TWA's eccentric owner, Howard Hughes (second from right with New York mayor FiorelloLa Guardia, far left, in 1939), the Lockheed Constellation "Connie" broke the era's transcontinental speed record on a flight from Burbank, California, to New York in 1946. The plane also served as Air Force One (top) for President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s.

That's quite some website. Isn't it? @Vindicator

letsdothis3 ago

Eero Saarinen, architect for the TWA Flight Center, worked for the OSS - https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2017-featured-story-archive/eero-saarinen-a-place-in-architectural-history.html

Shortly after World War II broke out, Eero became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He was recruited by a former classmate at Yale to join the OSS where he worked until 1944. It was the same classmate who several years prior had recruited Eero to work on the Futurama exhibit for the New York World’s Fair, an experience they now found directly relevant to their work at the OSS.

At the war’s end, Eero returned to Michigan to resume work with his father. Their first major undertaking together was designing the General Motors Technical Center which was constructed in 1956. That same year, Eero landed on the cover of Time magazine, a rare accomplishment for an architect to achieve. He shared this privilege with other greats such as Bucky Fuller and Frank Lloyd Wright. Eero was 45 years old when he appeared on Time’s cover, one of the youngest architects to do so. His work was featured in other magazines such as Vogue, Esquire, and Playboy.

With such publicity and success, it wasn’t long before other major American corporations were asking Eero to design their headquarters or corporate campuses. Eero accepted commissions from IBM, CBS, John Deere, Vassar College, MIT, Yale, The University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago.

He also designed the St. Louis's Gateway Arch https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/facts-about-st-louis-gateway-arch

The Secret Service has forbidden all presidents from ascending the Gateway Arch due to security concerns—it is, after all, a very tight, enclosed space. The only exception was Dwight D. Eisenhower, who signed the order for the construction of the arch in 1954. In 1967, when he was 77 years old, the former president visited St. Louis to give a speech. A trip to the top was not in his itinerary, but when he showed up early to the monument (after it had closed to the public), he insisted on riding the tram up.