Long ago in a different life I was drinking nonstop vodka with a chap name of Ed Daly in his office overlooking the Oakland International Airport. Ed owned World Airways and if you grew up during the 1970s you might remember how Ed helped make the world a smaller place with $99 coast to coast and international air travel.
Of course when you grow up in a tough Chicago neighborhood with the likes of Paul, Cardinal Paul Marcinkus, who was director of the Vatican Bank, you do other things too. He organized a team that flew to Rome and got to the bottom of the Getty kidnapping. He had government contracts for heavy lifting to and from Southeast Asia and his planes airlifted millions in the World of Islam to the annual Haj. ...