Word: regularly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Airline Hostess. Nehru has no private plane. On the seven-hour regular flight from New Delhi to Madras he dozed a little and read snatches from a novel. But most of the time he walked the airplane's aisle, performing the duties of an airline hostess-adjusting ventilating valves, checking on safety belts, arranging women's wraps and generally making the passengers more comfortable...
...Wildcats" (unscheduled passenger lines) were digging their claws into the regular airlines. They were particularly sharp on the profitable New York-Los Angeles run. By last week a dozen wildcatters were hauling some 2,500 passengers weekly on the transcontinental run, grossing an estimated $10 million a year...
Chance to Purr. Earnings-wise, the regular airlines have had their worst twelve months in history. Yet, as the American Aviation Daily pointed out, "The combined losses of American, T.W.A. and United for the year 1947 would have been offset had [they carried] all of the passengers moving by nonsked carriers...
...emigrated from Ireland to Pennsylvania. Eight of the nine children died of consumptive diseases. But grandfather Henry lived to be almost 80-an ordained minister in the United Presbyterian Church, a doer and dreamer, a smoker of Pittsburgh stogies, a man of vast physical bulk, who quit the regular ministry to homestead, later to edit and write for the family's Wallaces' Farmer. He wrote a three-volume story of his life and a robust column, "Uncle Henry's Sabbath School Lesson," which was one of the biggest circulation builders in Midwest journalism. To grandfather Henry...
Their quarry was a Catalina flying boat of Cathay Pacific Airways which made a regular run between Portuguese Macao and British Hong Kong...