question: Which U.S. aircraft businessman took the place of Philip G. Johnson following his death?
answer: William McPherson Allen
context: Title: Boeing strike of 1948
  Passage: The Boeing Company was founded by William Edward Boeing in 1916, but the company did not have the name of Boeing from the start, at the time it was called Pacific Aero Products.  The company started to sell a two-seater floater plane which was the main mode for business.  The moto that William Edward Boeing believed it was, “To let no new improvement in flying and flying equipment pass us by.”  This moto has held up even through today for Boeing has led the way for innovations with their airplanes.  In 1945 president of the company Philip G. Johnson died and William McPherson Allen took his place.  During this time that market for wartime planes was no longer which resulted in Allen having to close the doors temporarily and to let go of 25,000 workers.  To save the company Allen announced that he was going to start making commercial planes.
  Title: Philip Atwell
  Passage: Philip G. Atwell (often misspelled Phillip G. Atwell) is an American music video, television commercial and feature film director.  Starting out as a music video producer, he took up directing in 1999.  Often co-directing with Dr. Dre, he has helmed many music videos for Eminem and other hip hop artists.
  Title: Griffith Glacier
  Passage: Griffith Glacier ( ) is a tributary glacier draining westward from Beacon Dome, the California Plateau and the Watson Escarpment in Antarctica to enter Scott Glacier between Mount McKercher and Mount Meeks.  It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–63, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Commander Philip G. Griffith, an aircraft commander on photographic flights during Operation Deep Freeze 1966 and 1967.
  Title: Arsenic and Old Lace (film)
  Passage: Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 American dark comedy film directed by Frank Capra, starring Cary Grant, and based on Joseph Kesselring's play "Arsenic and Old Lace".  The script adaptation was by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein.  Capra actually filmed the movie in 1941 because of star Cary Grant's availability, but it was not released until 1944, after the original stage version had finished its run on Broadway.  The lead role of Mortimer Brewster was originally intended for Bob Hope, but he could not be released from his contract with Paramount.  Capra had also approached Jack Benny and Ronald Reagan before learning that Grant would accept the role.  Boris Karloff played Jonathan Brewster, who "looks like Karloff," on the Broadway stage, but he was unable to do the movie as well because he was still appearing in the play during filming, and Raymond Massey took his place.  The film's supporting cast also features Priscilla Lane, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton and Peter Lorre.
  Title: Volponi
  Passage: Volponi (foaled 1998 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse.  Bred by trainer Philip G. Johnson's family operation, Amherst Stable, he was sired by Florida Derby winner Cryptoclearance.  His dam, Prom Knight, was a daughter of the 1987 Irish Derby winner Sir Harry Lewis, who was a son of the great French runner Alleged, who won back-to-back editions of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
  Title: Philip G. Johnson (horseman)
  Passage: Philip G. Johnson, a native of Chicago, IL, was an American trainer of Thoroughbred race horses.  Johnson bought his first Thoroughbred in 1942 for $75.  He trained until close to the time of his death on August 6, 2004.
  Title: Saturday Night (musical)
  Passage: Saturday Night is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and the book by brothers Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein, based on their play, "Front Porch in Flatbush".  The musical was expected to open on Broadway in 1954-1955, but because of the lead producer's death, it was not produced.  Following a student production, it was staged at the Bridewell Theatre, London in 1997 and then in Chicago in 1999 and Off-Broadway in 2000.  The musical also ran in the West End in 2009.
  Title: USS Midway (CV-41)
  Passage: USS "Midway" (CVB/CVA/CV-41) was an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class.  Commissioned a week after the end of World War II, "Midway" was the largest ship in the world until 1955, as well as the first U.S. aircraft carrier too big to transit the Panama Canal.  A revolutionary hull design, based on the planned "Montana"-class battleship , gave her enhanced protection compared to previous carriers.  She operated for 47 years, during which time she saw action in the Vietnam War and served as the Persian Gulf flagship in 1991's Operation Desert Storm.  Decommissioned in 1992, she is now a museum ship at the USS "Midway" Museum, in San Diego, California, and the only remaining U.S. aircraft carrier commissioned right after World War II ended that was not an "Essex"-class aircraft carrier .
  Title: Yeosu–Suncheon rebellion
  Passage: The Yeosu–Suncheon rebellion, also known as the Yeo-Sun incident, was an October 1948 rebellion that took place in Yeosu, Suncheon, and surrounding towns, South Jeolla against the fledgling South Korean Syngman Rhee government largely cued by that government's suppression of the Jeju Uprising and refusal of Yeosu soldiers to help suppress the rebellion.  In Yeosu, the rebelling South Korean soldiers seized weapons and took control of the town.  The residents paraded through the town holding red flags.  They restored the town people's committee, and tried and executed a number of police, officials, and landlords.  The rebelling soldiers increased between 2,000 and 3,000, and massacred rights families and Christian youth.  After one week the South Korean army overwhelmed the rebels.  The matter was reviewed by the South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which found that government forces killed between 439 and 2000 area civilians.  U.S. forces played a role in suppressing the rebellion: U.S. commanders planned and directed the military operations, U.S. military advisors accompanied all ROK units, and U.S. aircraft were used to transport troops.
  Title: William McPherson Allen
  Passage: William McPherson "Bill" Allen (September 1, 1900 – October 28, 1985) was a U.S. aircraft businessman.
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