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* Juan Trippe (he was actually as [[New England|Yankee as they come]]:; the out -of -place name comes from his great-uncle's wife), was one of the founders of the Pan Am Empire. He was born to [[Old Money]] and leveraged that into his real interest which was airplanes. He was a Yale man and a member of the Skulls & Bones society, and would sponsor Yale's first flying team. Later he became one of the bosses of one of the most recognized commercial lines in the world and [[Spy From Weights and Measures|incidentally]], through under the table subsidies, an instrument of [[Hegemonic Empire|secret power projection]] at a time when the US Army was a skeleton and, the Navy and Marines were busy with [[Gunboat Diplomacy|constabulary]] [[The Sand Pebbles|duties.]], Andand when there was no [[OSS]]. This helped increase his private empire as well as incidentally increasing Uncle Sam's, not to mention preparing for [[World War 2II]] secretly during the time of Isolation. This was also, not incidentally, the time of the famous "Clipper" flying boats, which invoked romantic memories of ships in the sailing era. During the war Pan Am provided a route for fast travel including the only route to China for a long time.