Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Varsity Club elected John Lewis '52 of Dunster, House and Houston, Texas as its president for 1951-52 yesterday evening. Dustin M. Burke '52 of Cambridge was elected treasure while Warre L. Wiley '52 of the Varsity Club and Chelmsford is the new secretary...
...Lafayette (Ind.) Swim Club, team honors in the National A.A.U. women's indoor championship; in Houston, Texas. The meet's outstanding performer (and a newcomer to watch for in the 1952 Olympics): 17-year-old Mary Freeman, a George Washington University freshman, who won the 200-yd. backstroke, the 300-yd. individual medley, placed third in the 100-yd. backstroke...
After years of running a flying school at San Antonio and starting a semi-scheduled airline, he landed an airmail route between Brownsville, Amarillo and Houston, sold out in 1937 to Braniff. When World War II began, Long organized four Texas flying schools at the request of the armed forces ("We pitched the textbooks out the window and taught with planes and parts"), turned out 20,000 pilots and 3,500 mechanics. In 1945 he got a CAB certificate, and began flying passengers between Amarillo and Houston. Later, he bought six surplus DC-3s, began using the name Pioneer...
Pioneer has built up a shuttle service for oilmen from Dallas and Houston to the vast West Texas oilfields, stops at out-of-the-way spots like Abilene as many as 18 times daily. The company cuts cost corners and avoids frills. It has no downtown ticket offices, sells tickets only at the airports, serves no meals, only sandwiches, orange juice and coffee...
...Houston...