"Oh [Expletive], Howard"

Excerpt from the conversation between American's Crandall and Braniff's Putnam.

Crandall: I think it's dumb as hell, for Christ's sake, all right, to sit here and pound the [expletive] out of each other and neither one of us is making a [expletive] dime.

Putnam: Well...

Crandall: I mean, you know, goddam, what the [expletive] is the point of it?

Putnam: Nobody asked American to serve Harlingen, nobody asked American to serve Kansas City, and there were low fares in there, you know, before. So...

Crandall: You better believe it, Howard. But you, you, you know, the complex is here--ain't gonna change a goddam thing, all right. We can, we can both live here, and there ain't no room for Delta. But there's, ah, no reason that I can see, all right, to put both companies out of business.

Putnam: But if you're going to overlay every route of American's on top of over, on top of every route that Braniff has--I can't just sit here and allow you to bury us without giving our best effort.

Crandall: Oh, sure, but Eastern and Delta do the same thing in Atlanta and have for years.

Putnam: Do you have a suggestion for me?

Crandall: Yes, I have a suggestion for you. Raise your goddam fares 20%. I'll raise mine the next morning.

Putnam: Robert, we...

Crandall: You'll make more money and I will too

Putnam: We can't talk about pricing.

Crandall: Oh [expletive], Howard. We can talk about any goddam thing we want to talk about. This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.