Word: tillinghast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Advocate Informals Poetry Series presents Richard Tillinghast, Thomas Byron, James Mahoney, and friends at 8 p.m. tonight at the Advocate House, 21 South Street...
During the eight hours he held command of the plane, Trapnell demanded that he be allowed to talk to President Nixon, TWA Chairman Charles Tillinghast, and his lawyer in Miami; that he be given the precise sum of $306,800, the amount he lost in a lawsuit when the Federal Government took away a marina he owned; that he be flown to Dallas to see a psychiatrist; and that Angela Davis and a Dallas County prisoner named George Padilla, a friend, be released. Padilla told his Dallas jailers, "I'm not going anywhere with him. He's nuts...
...Wall Street analysts figure that TWA will earn $30 million this year. TWA carried out an aggressive cost-cutting program, laying off 4,000 employees and dropping a number of minor passenger services-like eyeshades on night flights. No further economy moves have been announced, but TWA Chairman Charles Tillinghast cautions that "both TWA and the industry are still far from out of the woods...
...Pratt & Whitney engines gushed black smoke, smearing the blue sky like a grease pencil. Two minutes later an Indianapolis-bound 727 with the same type of engines followed suit-but without trailing any visible wake. "That's quite a difference," Nixon beamed to TWA Chairman Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. standing beside him. "That's very good...
...Tillinghast staged the demonstration to show the industry's progress in curbing air pollution by modifying jet-engine combustion chambers to burn a leaner fuel on takeoff. This eliminates smoke, though not invisible gases like carbon monoxide. TWA is spending $2,000,000 to alter its engines this way; all U.S. airlines are pledged to achieve smokeless takeoffs by 1973, which may cost the lines as much as $100 million...