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Old 04-12-2013 | 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Denny Crane
I guess it's a matter of symantics. Boeing Air Transport was the name I couldn't pull out. William Boeing started "Boeing Air Transport" and bought up a bunch of small mail carriers (Varney being on of them). He rolled them into "BAT" which later became United. I would say that, without BAT there would be no United...

Denny
The Wikipedia link from Gearjerk provides a "whitewashed" history of United. There's still more to it, which involves corruption and a government scandal (imagine that).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Mail_scandal