Word: transatlanticism
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The American team won that inaugural encounter 8-4 and by the time the next match was held back in Scotland at St. Andrews, the Walker Cup competition had burgeoned into a keen transatlantic rivalry. In 1924, it was formally decided to hold the match biennially in alternate countries.
Bernard Darwin, the foremost golf writer of the period, had made one of his rare transatlantic passages to report the maiden Walker Cup Match for The London Times. When the captain of the British squad, Robert Harris, was sidelined by illness, the irrepressible Darwin stepped into the breach and won...
Freddie Laker is no Rickenbacker, Lindbergh, Mitchell, Doolittle or Armstrong. But the feisty Englishman has made aviation history in his own way, by forcing transatlantic fares lower than major airlines had said they could ever go. In June, Laker won approval from the Carter Administration to offer round-trip flights...
Laker's Skytrain terms are likely to be greeted favorably on the U.S. side of the Atlantic. New CAB Chairman Alfred Kahn, reflecting a refreshing willingness of the board to be less restrictive, says such special kinds of service are a "good thing" and foresees further rule relaxing to...
Scheduled airline service between the U.S. and Britain came within a whisker of stopping last week. But the planes kept flying because U.S. and British negotiators came up with a new pact governing air traffic between their countries-at 5:10 a.m. Wednesday, London time, ten minutes after the Bermuda...