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...Trippe and Smith, how about Collett Everman Woolman, who at 76 is still sole boss of Delta Airlines, seventh-largest airline in the world? Woolman pioneered crop dusting in 1925 and inaugurated the first mail-passenger airline on the West Coast of South America in 1928 (this line became Panagra). President of Delta since its founding in 1929, Woolman takes second place to no one for continued, consistent airline management, and he is not about to retire...
...forgotten its founding division. Grace Lines, which sails six passenger ships and 19 freighters between U.S. and Caribbean and South American ports, will receive six new automated freighters later this year. It is one of the only two U.S. carriers that operated passenger ships profitably last year. Panagra, the well-run airline that Grace owns jointly with Pan American, has ordered two supersonic transports for its Latin American runs, earned more than...
...Grace has agreed to sell its Panagra stock to Pan American, but approval of the sale by the Civil Aeronautics Board is not considered likely...
...odyssey. He sailed the wartime Pacific as a merchant seaman, made up for the years of prison-enforced sexual abstinence in a ten-day romp with an American Red Cross girl in Calcutta, worked for Aramco in Saudi Arabia, dug for diamonds in Venezuela, managed five jungle airports for Panagra in Bolivia, became a skilled pilot and a top-rated sports-car driver...
Before World War II, an American setting off on a trip to Chile could count on a three-week voyage by boat down South America's west coast. Today, Panagra's jets make it from New York to the Santiago capital in 14 hours, but few Americans visit Chile. Yet in this faraway land of nitrates, copper and wine, the most important election in Latin America this year will take place on Sept. 4. There is a real possibility that Chile, long democratic, will become the first nation in the hemisphere to choose an avowed Marxist...