Lewis B. Maytag, Jr.
May, 1963
Amid the Sad final listings on the 1962 N. Y. Stock Exchange, one corporation stood out as a model of fiscal fitness – National Airlines, whose shares increased 77 percent over their 1961 value, a robust gain unequaled in the market. Chief reason for the rise: National's lean, 36-year-old president, Lewis B. Maytag, Jr. A scion of the washingmachine clan, Maytag spurned a safe berth in the family firm ("The business was too slow and well-run – I preferred to make my own way"), founded...
