An American saga: Juan Trippe and his Pan Am empire
- ISBN-10
- 039450223X
- ISBN-13
- 9780394502236
- Series
- An American saga
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 529
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1980
- Publisher
- Random House (NY)
- Author
- Robert Daley
Description
One greatgrandfather, Henry B. Payne, had begun founding railroads as early as 1849. One of Henry's sons, Oliver Hazard Payne, had entered the new field of oil refining and later had consolidated with John D. Rockefeller; Hazard Payne ...
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- 1993
- 494 pages
- Paperback
- Fordham Univ Press
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- 1984-01-01
- 494 pages
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