Donald W. Nyrop

(1912- ) born at Elgin, Antelope County, lived in Crete. Federal agency official, airline executive, served as administrator of Civil Aeronautics Administration and appointed by U.S. President Truman as chairman of Civil Aeronautics Board for two years, was president of Northwest Airlines, the second oldest air carrier in the nation, from 1954 to 1978 when the company expanded its services to a 20,000-mile route system nationwide and overseas, modernized its fleet of aircraft, and tripled the number of revenue passengers. Consult Current Biography (1952) 451-453 and Sunday/Omaha/World Herald Magazine, February 8, 1959, p. 26 and National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol J (1964) 412 and Who's Who in America, Vol 2 (2003) 3909.

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