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 | | At every turn he met opposition from Juan Terry Trippe, who with his associates had taken control of Pan Am. |
 | | Trippe, his wealthy Yale roommate Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, and their Aviation Corporation of the Americas chairman Richard Hoyt were close to the Assistant Postmaster General, Washington Irving Glover, the professional head of the U.S. Post Office as the position of Postmaster General was a political sinecure. |
 | | O'Neill soldiered on, however, in the belief that an airline could actually support itself by carrying passengers, and managed to obtain backing from James H. Rand, head of Remington Rand, and others, and NYRBA took to the skies. |
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