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Somewhere between Miami and India last week was a mystery man of U.S. aviation; a man who has concocted one big international aviation deal after another, yet is almost unknown to U.S. citizens. His name: William Douglas Pawley. His business; dabbling in anything that flies -usually at a profit...
Swashbuckling Bill Pawley started his fabulous career at 18, when he wangled a job with a New York export firm selling diving suits to Venezuela pearl divers. Since then he has led an up-&-down life that would fill several dime thrillers, has got rich and gone broke in such disparate ventures as peddling old Haitian ships to the U.S. Government in World War I; driving a milk truck in Wilmington; buying and selling land in Florida's real estate boom...
Florida to Bangalore. It was Florida real estate that led him-with Pawley luck and Pawley supersalesmanship-into aviation. After selling some airfields to the old Curtis-Wright Flying Service, he bootstrapped himself into the vice president's chair of a Cuban flying service. He finally sold out at a sweet profit to Pan American Airways which just then was getting a start in Latin America...
Back from Cuba in 1932, he wound up as head of a Sperry subsidiary which owned a big chunk of China National Aviation Corp., an airline running between Hong Kong and Shanghai. Go-Getter Pawley went to China to see why C.N.A.C. was not coining money. The reasons are not on the record, but he finally sold out to Pan Am again. By that time Bill Pawley had made pals of China's bankers T. V. Soong and Dr. H. H. Kung-not to mention Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Soon he convinced them that China needed its own airplane factory...
...Corkran explained that he and Mrs. Pawley had been out for a horseback ride when bandits swooped upon them. For 44 days they lived in filth & fear less than 40 miles from Mrs. Pawley's home at Newchang, southern Manchukuo. When brought home last week "Tinko" (Mrs. Pawley) was tucked into a bed at Newchang Mission Hospital where her father, Dr. Phillips, diagnosed her condition as "feverish and fatigued from a severe cold...