[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 12748]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       COMMENDING DELTA AIRLINES

  (Mr. ISAKSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. Speaker, 75 years ago today in 1929 Delta Airlines 
flew its first six-passenger aircraft from Monroe, Louisiana to Dallas, 
Texas, inaugurating a great company and a great contributor to the 
United States of America.
  Begun as a crop dusting company in the Mississippi Delta, Delta 
Airlines has grown to a worldwide company, employing 60,000 people, 
30,000 of them in my home State of Georgia and our great City of 
Atlanta.
  I am pleased to rise today and commend Delta Airlines on the 
celebration of its 75th anniversary and to commend them for the 
contribution they have made to the travel of the United States of 
America and its citizens and to business enterprise, travel, and 
tourism around the world.

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