C. E. Woolman and Delta Air Lines

Anthony J. Mayo, Nitin Nohria and Mark Rennella

Chapter Chapter 3 in Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders, 2009, pp 61-80 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The survival and eventual growth of Delta Air Lines during the tumultuous early days of the airline industry in the 1920s and 1930s was due in large part to the character of its director, Collett Everman (C. E.) Woolman. Simultaneously visionary and practical, risk-taking and fiscally prudent, a university-educated cosmopolitan who naturally blended into smalltown Southern culture, Woolman somehow balanced these contradictory attributes and used them to create a prominent national business.

Keywords: Airline Industry; Boll Weevil; Passenger Traffic; Passenger Service; American Airline (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230100954_4

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