1928: C.E. Woolman, the principal founder of what would become Delta Air Lines, leads movement to buy Huff Daland Dusters. Renamed Delta Air Service for the Mississippi Delta region it served, the new airline is incorporated on Dec. 3, 1928.
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Delta Air Lines is a major American airline. The company's history began with the world's first aerial crop dusting operation called Huff Daland Dusters Inc., founded in 1925 in Macon, Georgia to combat the boll weevil infestation of cotton crops.
Its true origin, however, is lesser-known: “Delta” was suggested to airline founder C.E. Woolman by one of his most trusted associates, Catherine FitzGerald. She recommended an homage to the Mississippi Delta region where the airline's predecessor, Huff Daland Dusters, got its start.
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