Word: woolman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quaker Girl. Author Chase is the end-product of a long line of Quakers. Among them was famed Quaker Author John Woolman, but Ilka prefers her great-grandmother, who was "something of a glamor girl." During the Civil War, Great-grandmother ran away from her children and husband (a strict Abolitionist) and married a Southern doctor. She raised him a family in Florida, and when he died, returned to remarry Great-grandfather. "This," says Author Chase, "seems to me nice going at any time, but in that day and age a truly remarkable feat." Great-grandmother died, age 92, from...
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...
...when Postmaster General Farley shook up the airmail contracts in 1934, Woolman saw his chance. With only two planes, 25 employes and more nerve than cash, he snagged the mail contract for the Dallas-Atlanta-Charleston, S.C. run. Meanwhile, 63-year-old ex-Newspaper Publisher Clarence Eugene Faulk, who made $500,000 when he sold his Monroe (La.) News-Star and Morning Post, was buying blocks of Delta at $5 a share. Later Delta stock went to $40 (then split 4-for-1) and Faulk went to the president's chair as finance overseer. Woolman became operating vice president...
...studded its two-day conclave programs with big names, from Cordell Hull to Elizabeth Arden. This year it lined up Sir Louis Beale of the British Purchasing Commission, Missouri's Governor Lloyd C. Stark, Akron's Harvey S. Firestone Jr., Vogue's Editor Edna Woolman Chase, many another. Unlike the ivied theorists of college round tables who know what to do but are in no position to do it, Conference experts have facts & figures at practiced fingertips...
...brightens her Luncheons by interviewing a couple of guests of honor. She has gaily discussed man's reversion to the ape with Harvard's Earnest Albert Hooton, the worries & woes of picture-making with Walter Wanger, the business of editing fashion magazines with her mother, Mrs. Edna Woolman Chase, editor of Vogue. She is fond of titillating her listeners with attacks on too too noble women, descriptions of summer romances gone sour because "in the flush of the rush he may have neglected to tell you of his wife...