After a Washington meeting several years ago, a group of airline men were scrambling to get into the same cab. One of them was Eastern Air Lines' Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. Another was Delta Air Lines' President C. E. Woolman, whose web of routes from Charleston, S.C. to Fort Worth had long acted as feeder lines into Eastern Air Lines' lucrative routes from Florida to New York and New England. Would Woolman mind letting Eddie sit on his lap for a short ride? Cracked Woolman: "Well, Eddie, I've been helping support you for years, so I might as well do...
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