Word: landa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LANDA Ormond Beach...
...Colonial director since 1944. Dykes learned to fly in the Army during World War I, later worked as a field manager for the U.S. Mail Service and regional maintenance superintendent for American Airlines. In 1941, Colonial hired him as its top maintenance man. As president, he succeeds Alfons Landa, who took the job on a fill-in basis when Sigmund Janas resigned under fire from the CAB (TIME, July 2). Last week Landa reported that Colonial had a 1951 net profit of about $213,000 v. a $310,000 loss...
...Colonial, he pushed it up from a pipsqueak line to a sizable airline flying 68 million passenger-miles a year over 3,182 miles of scheduled air lanes. Last week Colonial Airlines, with no explanation, issued a cryptic announcement: Sig Janas was out, and a new president, Alfons Landa, was running the line with the help of a new executive committee. No airman, 53-year-old Landa is a Washington lawyer, who is a director of the American Institute of Management and had done some legal work for the line. Said one Colonial hand: "I nearly dropped my teeth...