Word: everman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...