Word: braniff
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...Service. American Airlines has applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission to establish flights from Detroit to Cincinnati and from Detroit to Indianapolis. Pennsylvania-Central has asked permission to inaugurate service between Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Transcontinental & Western Air wants to buy Braniff to get a north-south service to cross its transcontinental route, and Eastern Air covets Braniff's line between Houston and Brownsville, Tex., in order to tie up with Pan American's route in Mexico. Last week the chances of fulfilling most of these ambitions without overhauling the Air Mail Act of 1934 were reduced to zero...
...still lost, but the Lockheed had been found, buried in the snow near Kellogg, Idaho, with both men dead. On Dec. 19, an Eastern Air Lines Douglas cracked up in New York, killed no one due to the landing skill of Pilot Dick Merrill. On Dec. 23, a Braniff Air Lines Lockheed plumped to earth at Dallas on a test flight, killed six. Total toll for the year on scheduled passenger transport planes was 59-high-est in history...