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...able, aggressive New Orleans lawyer, Frank Ellis, 54, came to Washington with a reputation for getting things done. Back in Louisiana, he had masterminded the financing of the 24-mile Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. He was a leading mover and shaker in the construction of New Orleans' Moisant International Airport, and, as a fortissimo music lover as well as civic leader, he helped spark a fund-raising drive that saved the New Orleans Opera. He earned his claim to a job in the new Administration by belligerently and successfully managing Kennedy's Louisiana campaign last year, in the teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Defense: Louisiana Haymaker | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...Idlewild Airport last week, a trim, white-painted jetliner, smaller than the familiar Boeing 7075 and Douglas DC-8s. roared off the runway and headed south on Delta Air Lines Flight 873 to New Orleans. In 2 hr. 19 min., the jet touched down at New Orleans' Moisant International Airport, loaded another batch of passengers, and whistled back to New York in 2 hr. 10 min. Both flights, at speeds up to 593 m.p.h., set new commercial records for the 1,184-mile run and sent the nation's newest jetliner off to a high-flying start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The 880 Takes Off | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

Chep Morrison has talking points: the plans for a $200,000,000 deepwater seaway, a free-trade zone like New York's, and an International Trade Mart to match the culturally and socially successful International House. Airwise, the city has bid for leadership by building Moisant International Airport, the only major U.S. municipal field to be completed during the war. New Orleans still sends only two flights south each day to rival Miami's 34, but when four-engined stratospheric giants take over the Latin American shuttle, Moisant's 7,000-ft. runway will be an insignificant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: South to the Future | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

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