Slick Airways, largest U.S. air-freight line, has been in trouble ever since the end of the Korean war cut military freight orders and new civilian business failed to fill the gap (TIME, Oct. 4). Last week two optimistic outsiders who thought they could cure Slick's ailments took over the airline's management. In as new board chairman and top manager went Delos Wilson Rentzel, 45, a former CAA administrator, CAB chairman and Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation, who is now president of two Oklahoma City truck lines. In as director and executive committee member went Roy G. Woods, 54,...
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