Word: newark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Mayor LaGuardia launched a new attack on Newark's monopoly-enlargement of the old North Beach Airport on Flushing Bay in Queens (20 minutes by car from Manhattan's Grand Central Station) into the most pretentious land and seaplane base in the world (TIME, Sept. 20). At brisk Newark renovation also began...
Last week, Newark Airport suddenly found itself all spruced up with apparently no place to go. For, with the $23,000,000, 550-acre North Beach project half completed, energetic Fiorello LaGuardia had won commitments from aviation's big five-Pan American Airways, American. United, Eastern Air Lines and Transcontinental & Western Air-that they would begin using the new field when it is opened officially next April 30. Pan American, which does not use Newark, planned to move in from its own base ten miles away at Port Washington. The others cagily announced they would use both North Beach...
...unobstructed approaches and broad, long runways (ranging from 3,600 to 6,000 ft.), North Beach has one feature the Civil Aeronautics Authority's safety board may not like-a blind landing runway separated by only 200 feet from the flanking water of Flushing Bay. Last week even Newark's stout advocates feared that C. A. A. might approve North Beach and old Newark Airport might become a ghostly memento in the marshy Jersey meadows...
...Griped Newark's greying Mayor Ellenstein over the Little Flower's coup: "Without the first consideration for the lives of passengers and pilots, Mayor LaGuardia seems determined to resort to every stratagem to have New York designated as the official Eastern airway terminal...
Quipped LaGuardia, remembering that only last December Mayor Ellenstein was indicted for conspiracy to defraud his own city in the purchase of land for Newark Airport: "Poor Meyer is so troubled with . . . the pickle...