Word: braniff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico City's Central Airport a crowd of 15,000 wildly cheered the landing of a shiny, reconverted Douglas DC-3. The big transport had just made the first flight over Mexico's newest airline-Aerovias Braniff...
...Aerovias' competitors in Mexico know better than to judge the potential strength of their new rival by such standards. Fledgling Aerovias is backed by the million dollar fortune of able, affable Thomas E. Braniff. His American company, Braniff Airways, Inc., is the fifth largest airline in the U.S. (see map). Many Braniffmen are already on the job in Mexico, sharing their operating know-how with Aerovias' eager Mexican employes...
Pioneer Makes Good. Tom Braniff, 61, made his fortune selling insurance in boomtown Oklahoma City. In 1927 he financed an airline from Oklahoma City to Tulsa, 120 miles away. From the day it acquired its first Stinson cabin plane, the line lost money. Soon airline, plane and deficit were taken over by Backer Braniff, in fee simple...
...Braniff searched the air transport industry for good men, sent his gangling Braniff Airways north to tap the rich traffic at Kansas City, Chicago and Denver. A businessman with a hawk eye for facts & figures, Braniff watched his operating costs, held losses at a minimum...
Home after piloting heavy bombers on 25 combat missions over Europe, one day last spring Captain Pervis Earl Youree, D.F.C., Air Medal, etc., flirted his Flying Fortress up alongside a lumbering Braniff airliner (TIME, May 29). For this serious indiscretion he was court-martialed, sentenced to be cashiered as an example to other caper-cutting Army airmen. Appeals to General Henry H. Arnold, who was disturbed by the accidents resulting from such antics, got nowhere. Friends of Youree went to the White House...