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...Ambassador William D. Pawley had reason to be pleased by these dramatics. Since his arrival in Lima last July, Businessman Pawley has been busy trying to be constructive. He helped arrange for settlement of Government debts so that much-needed U.S. Export-Import Bank credits might be obtained. He induced U.S. oil companies to spend money developing Peruvian oil reserves, and aided the Santa Valley project to exploit zinc and nearby Cañón del Pato water power to create a new electrolytic zinc industry. With the formation of a sturdy new Cabinet last week, prospects for Pawley...
...confused with William Douglas Pawley, 49, aviation enthusiast, founder of Central Aircraft Mfg. Co. (China's first), godfather of the Flying Tigers, now U.S. Ambassador to Peru...
...President also appointed as Ambassador to Peru swashbuckling, dark-haired William Douglas Pawley, 48, who built airplanes in China and India, helped get the Flying Tigers started...
Since then his Central Aircraft Manufacturing Co. of China has built and sold more than $30,000,000 worth of planes and repair services to China, has built and operated three different plants as the Japanese bombed them out. Profit to Pawley: up to $1,000,000 a year. First Pawley was at Shanghai; then at Hankow up the Yangtze (where he made 78 bombers and repaired 90 fighters); finally at Loi Wing just over the border from Burma. The Japs caught up with his $1,000,000 Loi Wing factory, just after he had trucked most of its machinery...
...Another Pawley contribution to China was to help sell the U.S. Government on the idea of the now-legendary A.V.G.-the Flying Tigers. He began touting the scheme in 1939, but it was two years before Washington adopted the idea. But with typical Pawley luck he still got under the wire: when the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor there were 100 Jap-shooting U.S. flyers in China and the A.V.G. was on the road to fame...