Word: feeder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everything hangs on Estin because he is the best feeder on the attack which has two good creasemen, Dick Bezanson and Rick Hudner. Without Estin behind the cage to toss his quick, accurate passes, Bezanson and Hudner lose a great deal of their effectiveness. Lew Soule, the fourth member of the very fine attack, is taking a Law School exam at game time...
...landing instruments (both G.C.A. and I.L.S.) and Fido (fog-dispersing oil burners). Through the soup over Arcata one day last December, a Southwest Airways DC-3 made the world's first blind landing with all three systems on a scheduled commercial run. Since then, Southwest, a ten-plane "feeder" line between 24 California and Oregon small towns, has made 1,200 routine instrument landings at Arcata...
...such pioneering, Southwest, in its 22 months of existence, has become the second biggest U.S. feeder airline. Last week, while almost all airlines were having money troubles, Southwest announced that it had flown past a significant milestone ; it completed its first quarter in the black, netting...
...their wartime cargo line across the Pacific. At war's end, with $2,000,000 in capital and the backing of such Hollywood bigwigs as Jimmy Stewart, Brian Aherne and Darryl Zanuck, they got a three-year experimental charter from CAB for their West Coast feeder service...
...made money by doubling as mechanic, ticket salesman and hangar-sweeper. By 1944, when he was operating seven planes, the Civil Aeronautics Board was so impressed by his line that it awarded him such rich scheduled routes as the New York-Miami and Miami-Havana runs. Overnight the onetime feeder line became one of the potentially richest trunkline carriers...