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Brad glover skaven sky fleet3/3/2023 ![]() ![]() All the eligible British men in the neighbourhood would be asked along - young and old - to look over the cargo. The first few nights ashore, the girls with the smartest social credentials would be invited to dinner by the ship’s captain. Many courtships were conducted within days. ![]() Any who did behave themselves, but failed to find a husband after a year, would be sent back in disgrace as a ‘returned empty’.Ī bride of the British Raj: Iris Butler on her wedding day in 1927, one of the girls of the 'Fishing Fleet'Īs a result, girls felt under huge pressure to marry the first eligible man who asked them. If they misbehaved in any way, they would be put on a diet of bread and water and shipped straight home. In 1671, 20 girls went out to Bombay on the promise of an allowance of £300 a year (about £25,000 today) for life from the Company if they married there. The East India Company - which effectively ruled over much of India until 1857, when the country came under British government rule - even helped provide the men with brides by paying the passage of single girls to come to India. So in the eyes of the authorities, shipping out British girls to keep their menfolk happy during their long exile made perfect sense. In regimental towns, the brothels were even licensed and the prostitutes inspected for sexually-transmitted diseases and compulsorily treated, as they were back home in Britain.īut the Contagious Diseases Act, which required the examination of any woman suspected of being a prostitute near a garrison, was repealed in India in 1888, after which rates of venereal disease soared, incapacitating almost half the British soldiery (only soldiers, not officers, were allowed to use brothels). Others sated their lust in the numerous brothels that sprang up to serve the British. Once there, some took Indian wives and mistresses and sired children with them. He and his wife Jennifer have three sons and a daughter.For generations, young men had sailed out to India as soldiers, bureaucrats and businessmen. He earned his bachelor's degree in economics and master's degree in accounting from Brigham Young University. He serves as a Director on the Salt Lake City Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and is Chairman of the DOT’s NextGen Advisory Committee. His value-based, innovative approach continues to successfully create opportunity and provide value for SkyWest stakeholders.Ĭhip joined SkyWest in 2001 as vice president – controller, and served as President and COO of SkyWest Airlines from 2007-2014. His commitment to SkyWest’s people, coupled with his management of partner carrier relationships, financial planning and internal controls have helped ensure SkyWest is best positioned in one of the most highly competitive segments of the industry. In recent years, SkyWest has secured key dual-class fleet flying agreements with major airline partners Delta, United, American and Alaska Airlines, redefined its strategic objectives, and elevated financial and operating performance at SkyWest Airlines.Ĭhip has guided the company through some of the industry’s most challenging times while maintaining a focus on the long-term stability and success of the company and its thousands of employees. SkyWest was name a Glassdoor Best Places to Work Employees Choice in 2020, one of Fortune’s Most Admired Companies in 2019, one of the Best Companies to Work For in 2015, and Regional Airline of the Year by Air Transport World for the third time in 2014. Since joining the company, Chip has led SkyWest’s evolution as the world’s largest regional airline.
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