Word: alton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Over Alton airport, Columbia, Mo., halfway between St. Louis and Kansas City, last week, zoomed Harry Hammill, American Eagle salesman, and his wife in their plane. Roe Montgomery, field manager at Columbia, saw that the right wheel was hanging useless from the under carriage. Reckoning that the ill-fated plane was heading for Kansas City, he telephoned officials at the airport there to warn the flyers and prepare for disaster...
...Interstate Commerce Commission's plan, that it would shortly file a new application to execute the consolidation the Commission had mapped out for it. Roads in the Commission's B. & O. merger: Reading, Jersey Central, Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Susquehanna, Detroit, Toledo & Ironton (½), Chicago & Alton, Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville...