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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from 1905 to 1929 (chiefly with the bureau of supply & contracts), resigned to go to California for Curtiss-Wright. There he was in charge of the C.W. airports at Glendale, Alameda and San Mateo, and of two flying service bases. Also for a year he was vice president of Maddux Air Lines until it was taken over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Big v. Little | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

Last week's crash shocked the whole U. S. not alone because of the fame of a passenger, but because it was the first "bad" accident in transport service in more than a year. (In January 1930, 16 persons perished in the T. A. T.-Maddux crash in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: A Piece of Ice? | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...through passenger travel by air completely established over all three, but last week the middle (Santa Fe) line was opened. T. A. T.-Maddux and Western Air Express, operating together as Transcontinental & Western Air Inc. which they formed to fulfill their new joint U. S. main contract (TIME, Oct. 13 ), began 36-hr, service between Newark and Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: The Big Trails | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

Sued. Zane Grey, prolific author of western novels; for $500,000; by Charles A. Maddux, oldtime frontiersman (no kin of President John L. Maddux of T. A. T.Maddux Air Lines). Charge: that much of Grey's The Thundering Herd (1925) was pirated from The Border and the Buffalo (1907) by John R. Cook, whose widow left rights to Maddux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 28, 1930 | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

...Curtiss Condor biplane, taxiing to its hangar at a Long Island airport, suddenly ground looped, plowed into a crowd of holiday spectators. The whirling propellers killed a man and a wife. The plane bore the insignia of T. A. T.-Maddux Air Lines. Col. Lindbergh is technical adviser of T. A. T.-Maddux. Daily News screamed in full width headlines: LINDBERGH LINER KILLS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Foxy Father | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

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