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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
May 4, 2010
The United-Continental merger reconnects corporate bloodlines that date to aviation’s “fried-chicken era” in the 1920s and 1930s.
Walter Varney, an entrepreneur, former World War I pilot and daredevil who once flew a biplane so low a motorcyclist could snatch a rope ladder, started the airlines’....