Word: thornburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TACA, Waterman picked Jack W. Thornburg, 44, vice president and general manager of Waterman Airlines, Inc., who firmly believes that "the speculative, romantic thing" is out of airlines and the era of hardheaded operation...
...T.W.A. pilot for nine years, Thornburg entered the Navy in 1940, was an operations officer for the Naval Air Transport Service for the Caribbean and South America. When he got out of the Navy in 1946, he joined Waterman Airlines. With six planes - two DC-4s and four DC-3s - he has operated a nonscheduled service to Puerto Rico, Central America, England, Germany and South Africa, an intrastate line between six Alabama cities...
...Thornburg is well aware that despite TACA's long, colorful career, it can hardly be called a going concern today. In three years it has lost close to $4.5 million; last year's losses alone were approximately $2.6 million and were one of the big reasons that hard-pressed T.W.A. was glad to get out. But by tying the line in with Waterman's steamship operations from Gulf ports, Jack Thornburg thinks that he can get TACA flying high again. And Waterman also hopes to show CAB that steamship companies can operate an efficient, economic...
Dunster: le, Murphy; lt, Thornburg; lg, Johnson; c, Weeks; rg, Smith; rt, Coyne; re, McCroskey, Graham; backs, Torrey, Critchlow, Aldrich, Muller, MacDonald...
Dunster: le, Murphy; lt, Thornburg; lg, Johnson; c, Ames; rg, Lewis; rt, Coyne; re, McCroskey, Graham; backs, Torrey, Critchlow, Aldrich, Easton, MacDonald...