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- Q5342212 abstract "Edward "Eddie" Carlson (June 4, 1911 – April 3, 1990), was an American businessman and Seattle, Washington civic leader.Carlson was born in Tacoma, Washington and, as a youth, helped his single mother make ends meet by working as an attendant at a gas station, as well as other odd jobs. Carlson entered the University of Washington in 1928 and, while a student, began his hotel career as a pageboy, then elevator operator, then bellhop.He dropped out of college in 1930 for financial reasons. He worked half a year as a seaman, then worked a summer job at Mount Baker Lodge, and beginning in autumn 1931 traveled the country in an unsuccessful stint as a salesman trying to sell a machine that mechanically blocked (shaped) felt hats. Returning to Seattle, he returned to hotel work, first as a room clerk and then as assistant manager of Seattle's Roosevelt Hotel, next as manager of the President Hotel in Mount Vernon, Washington. On June 26, 1936, he married Nell H. Cox.In April 1937, Carlson returned to Seattle to manage the Rainier Club, Seattle's preeminent private club." He retained that position until he left to join the Navy in 1942; at that time, the club awarded him a military membership, which became a regular membership upon his return from World War II.He finished World War II as a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy Supply Corps, having served in Seattle and then in Mechanicsburg, PennsylvaniaReturning from the war, he took a position as assistant to S. W. Thurston, president of Western Hotels, Inc. (later Western International Hotels, then Westin Hotels). Within a year he had been named vice president, then became successively executive vice president (1953), president (1960), and finally chairman and CEO (1969). Westin merged with United Airlines in 1970, and Carlson became CEO of the newly formed company, U.A.L., a position he held from 1971–1979. In his first two years, he turned the almost bankrupt airliner into a profitable one.Carlson is credited in bringing the 1962 World's Fair—the Century 21 Exposition—to Seattle. His napkin sketch of tower with a revolving restaurant on top, inspired by the Stuttgart Tower, was the origin of the Space Needle. Harvard Business School named Carlson one of the great business leaders of the twentieth century.Carlson was also (along with Henry Broderick) one of the two leaders of the successful 1948 initiative that re-legalized the sale of liquor by the drink in Washington State.".
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- Q5342212 awards "Horatio Alger Award, 1975".
- Q5342212 awards "Seattle-King County Association of Realtors First Citizen of 1965".
- Q5342212 awards "Seattle-King County Municipal League Outstanding Citizen, 1970".
- Q5342212 awards "U. Washington's Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus, 1970".
- Q5342212 birthDate "1911-06-04".
- Q5342212 birthName "Edward Elmer Carlson".
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- Q5342212 boards "Chm. of board, United Airlines 1979-90".
- Q5342212 boards "General American Insurance Corporation".
- Q5342212 boards "Seattle Central Association".
- Q5342212 boards "Seattle Chamber of Commerce".
- Q5342212 boards "Seattle First National Bank".
- Q5342212 boards "Trust Houses Group in London".
- Q5342212 boards "University of Washington Board of Regents".
- Q5342212 boards "Virginia Mason Association".
- Q5342212 boards "director, Seattle-First National Bank".
- Q5342212 boards "many others".
- Q5342212 boards "president, American Hotel and Motel Association".
- Q5342212 boards "president, Pacific Science Center Foundation".
- Q5342212 boards "president, UAL 1971–".
- Q5342212 boards "president, Western International 1961–".
- Q5342212 boards "trustee, Seattle Symphony Orchestra".
- Q5342212 boards "trustee, Virginia Mason Hospital".
- Q5342212 deathDate "1990-04-03".
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