In the Drake Hotel, Chicago, 35 of the nation's most famed business men held, last week, a secret conference. They had come in private cars from the four corners of the country, and they organized in a few hours the largest air transport project in the world. The company was capitalized at $10,000,000, and $2,000,000 was at once subscribed—enough to start immediate operation of a New York-Chicago overnight route. The list of officers and directors of the National Air Transport Corporation is imposing. President is Howard E. Coffin of Detroit, whose reputation was...
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