Word: lufthansa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlantic, this will be a tantalizing summer. Last week the upper component of the British Short-Mayo Composite, the seaplane Mercury ("The piggyback plane"), arrived in Foynes, Eire, after an uneventful round trip to Canada and the U. S. And last week off City Island, N. Y., the Lufthansa Nordmeer, flicked like a bug from the deck of its catapult ship, the Friesenland, skittered across to the Azores just after its colleague, the Nordwind, had skittered from the Azores to Port Washington, Long Island. Howard Hughes and Douglas Corrigan having completed (TIME, July 25) their spectacular flights with a maximum...
...spurred British naval and military forces to action. Fresh proof that once-helpless Persia, now aggressive, heavily-soldiered Iran, could stand manfully up to her former master came early this month. A giant, trimotored Junkers low-wing monoplane, with swastikas gleaming on tail, roared down to Teheran airport, inaugurating Lufthansa's new commercial airline between isolated, mountainous Iran and the Near East and Europe...
...Iran's slower, often impassable dirt mountain roads. Better still, they had missed having to put up for a night in one of Iran's insect-ridden rest houses. What the plane's arrival meant to Middle Eastern diplomats, however, was that the German-controlled Lufthansa had just won a significant battle with British Imperial Airways over flying concessions...
...South America and across the Pacific, Pan American Airways proved to itself that "the bigger the airplane is the more efficient it can be made." The P. A. A. began to eye the Atlantic and ran into the toughest competition in its history. Europe's crack lines, Deutsche Lufthansa, Air France and Imperial Airways-all richer than P. A. A. because their Governments directly subsidize them-had plans for the same ocean. But none had over-ocean passenger planes. Three years ago P. A. A. called for ships that would fly the route, pay their way. Last week Seattle...
Engaged. Prince Louis Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, 30, heir apparent of Crown Prince Friedrich William of Germany, one-time automechanic in a Detroit Ford plant, now employed by .Lufthansa German airline; to Princess Kyra Kirillowna, 28, daughter of Russian Grand Duke Cyril; in Doom, The Netherlands...