The High and the Mighty Page #2

into Okinawa.

I'll just lay you a bet

he's got better than 20,000 hours.

- It sure is embarrassing.

- What's embarrassing?

He's got so much time and all.

They must've been out of their heads

to hire an old fire-horse like him.

Why not let him graze in the pasture?

- All ready, Lennie?

- All set to sign, Skipper.

- All ready, Lennie?

- All set to sign, Skipper.

Attention, please.

Mrs Helen Bell,

please report to the ticket office.

Me, too.

Twenty-one souls onboard.

The rest, cargo.

73,000 pounds gross.

I said it to Orville, I said it to Wilbur,

and I say it to you,

the thing will never leave the ground.

You may rely on Miss Spalding to take

good care of your son, Mr Fields.

He's not the first young man

to cross the ocean alone.

It will be quite an adventure for him.

He's, unfortunately,

quite an experienced traveller.

His mother will meet him

in San Francisco.

She's brunette, and quite beautiful.

If you'll wait at Gate 4, Mr Fields,

you may put Tobey aboard yourself.

Thank you.

Come on, Tobey, let's go.

Flight 1-4 from Los Angeles

arriving, Gate 11.

What are you looking at?

Attention, please.

You suppose it'll ever happen to me?

I'm sorry to bother you again,

but where can I send a cable?

Just across from the souvenir stand.

You're sure about our connecting

with that New York plane?

You'll make it with time to spare,

Mr Rice.

We'll make it with time to spare.

That little lady had a grandfather

who left her both brains and riches.

She bought her husband

an advertising agency not long ago

because he wanted a new toy.

How do you know these things?

I used to be a night clerk

in a Nevada hotel.

Flight 7 for San Francisco now loading.

- Mr Locota?

- Yeah, that's me.

I'm a fisherman.

My family should be in fishermen

for a couple of hundred years,

maybe more, I don't know.

The fish, they don't school up here,

like on the coast of California.

So, I'm gonna go back

to San Francisco now.

Thank you, Mr Locota.

Your plane will be announced

in a few minutes.

Don't you want us

to check that through for you?

But I got in here my things

for to eat for the trip.

You've hurt my feelings, Mr Locota.

Did you think you wouldn't eat my lunch,

or the steak we're gonna have

for dinner?

Ma'am, miss,

I don't know about these things.

I never fly before. I don't want to make

no trouble for nobody.

Serving you will be a pleasure,

Mr Locota.

Thank you.

Just a minute, Mr Locota.

There you are.

Thank you. Excuse me very much.

You didn't know all about that little man.

The ticketing sheet had nothing on him

except statistics.

I'm afraid he falls into

the "nobody" category.

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