Word: klm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entertainer named Max Tailleur got a letter from a couple named Cornelis and Margaretha Muylaert. Emigrants to Canada eight years ago, the Muylaerts wrote that they were longing to see their country and their daughter, her husband and their grandchildren. Glowing at the humanity of it all, Tailleur got KLM to agree to fly the homesick couple over, arranged for the dramatic reunion to take place on Radio Nederland...
...began in Rome, on a broadcasting station's quiz show, where one of the questions was: "Can penguins live at the North Pole?" KLM had just inaugurated its polar service from Amsterdam to Tokyo, so we took two penguins to the Arctic to find out. It was not easy to arrange their accommodations...
...VOGELS KLM Royal Dutch Airlines...
...Dawn. The night before, KLM Flight 607E, a two-month-old Super Constellation en route from Amsterdam to New York, had put down at Shannon Airport, and its passengers had trooped into the lounges and duty-free shops to sip Irish coffee, have a last buying spree, scribble a few final postcards. On board the economy flight when it took to the air again were its crew of eight and 91 passengers, including three babies in arms, a honeymoon couple, 13 members of the Church of the Brethren from Lancaster County, Pa., three Polish immigrants to the U.S., an Israeli...
...would be a shame to have airlines such as Scandinavian Airlines, Swissair, Air France, and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines cut down on their high caliber of service (which is typical of European hospitality) in order for Pan American to compete successfully with their version of typical United States hospitality (TIME, April...