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Airlines have roots in ‘fried-chicken era’

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’....

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