Word: collette
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sidelines. So was Mrs. Holleran and Defending Champion Betty Jameson, generally considered the ablest of America's golfing sorority, who was put out by a bespectacled upstart named Janet Younker. Two or three rounds later they were joined by Mrs. Leichner, by six-time Champion Glenna Collett Vare, by twice runner-up Maureen Orcutt, by other pre-tournament favorites. By that time the gallery turned its toes toward Betty Hicks Newell, a pint-sized 20-year-old from Long Beach, Calif...
Delta started in June 1929, when gruff, farm-minded Collett Everman Woolman deserted his profitable crop-dusting business (done with Huff-Daland Dusters and other hedgehoppers) to ferry passengers between Dallas and Birmingham. For 16 months it looked like a good switch: passengers were more lucrative than insecticides, and safer. But in October 1930, postal officials pushed him off the airline map, gave a fat mail contract to rival American Airlines. Disgusted, Woolman sold his passenger equipment to American, went back to dusting...