Word: airlinese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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He was America's "Ace of Aces," the most decorated pilot of World War I. He was a pioneer of U.S. commercial aviation and the last of the early flyers to run one of the nation's great airlines. But of all the legends that trailed him throughout...
In 1934 General Motors asked him to take over the management of a money-losing subsidiary, Eastern Air Lines. Red ink was hardly unusual in the aviation business in those days; no airline, in fact, had ever operated in the black. Within a year the tightfisted Rickenbacker made Eastern profitable...
The pilot's voice was calm, almost as if he were describing the sights of Paris to his 117 passengers. "I have mechanical trouble with my engines," he told the control tower at Orly Airport. The control tower at Orly alerted all rescue units and prepared for an emergency...
* Includes figures for Northeast Airlines, which Delta acquired in August 1972.
"Say, come on outside and let this fella take your picture, we're trying to get this road fixed," Phillips shouted to a white-haired old woman at the door of the decaying house. As the old woman hobbled out onto the porch, an American Airlines jet passed overhead--on...