Word: delta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tran Van Van, 58, a gaunt intriguer who is one of Viet Nam's wealthiest businessmen (Saigon real estate, Delta rice lands), is also an ally of Phan Khac Suu and was imprisoned by the Diem and Khanh regimes. Van is the potential leader of a 44-seat southern bloc in the new assembly...
...Delta Air Lines, fifth largest...
...Collett Everman Woolman. Old-fash ioned where finances were involved, "C. E." was progressive about his equip ment. Nothing pleased him so much as the fact that the airline he founded was the first to fly the Convair 880, the DC-8, and last year the DC-9. Delta was also scheduled to be first with the Lockheed L-100, a civilian model of the Air Force Hercules cargo plane. But when the occasion came last week, it was a sad one. Flying from Houston to Atlanta, Delta's first L-100 bore home the body...
Woolman long insisted that he would never retire. A little less than a year ago, he promoted himself from president to board chairman of the com pany. For president, he hand-picked Charles H. Dolson, 60, a former pilot who first flew for Delta in 1934. The day after Woolman's funeral last week in Atlanta, Delta's board of directors carried out C. E.'s wishes by naming Dolson chief executive officer...
...Illinois. He learned to fly in a wood and cloth-covered Jenny, worked his way across the Atlantic on a cattle boat in 1910 to watch one of the world's first air shows at Rheims, France. Out of school, he became a plantation manager in the Mississippi Delta, turned naturally enough to airplanes as the best way to dust boll weevils off his cotton. When others sought the service, Woolman forsook cotton growing for crop-dusting...