Word: twa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Donald Douglas started his own company in 1920, built military and private planes exclusively for twelve years. Then TWA prompted him to try his hand at commercial transports. The experimental DCi, slightly improved and renamed DC-2, was the result. Last week, the much-heralded DC-3 (also known as DST, for Douglas Sleeper Transport) finally made its debut. Almost identical with the DC2 in lines, it is 4-ft. longer, much fatter, seats 24 or sleeps 16. The largest landplane in the U. S., it cruises at 200 m.p.h., costs no more to run than...
...natty grey and yellow uniforms, four excited, rosy-faced boys from Valley Forge Military Academy boarded one of TWA's Douglas airliners at Camden, N. J. one morning last week. They were going to homes in & around Pittsburgh for Easter vacation. One had been given the air trip by his parents as a reward for high marks. Also on board was Mrs. Meyer C. Ellenstein, wife of the Mayor of Newark, bound for St. Louis to visit a daughter. The plane's hostess was a neat, slight, dark girl of 22 named Nellie Granger. The chief pilot, Otto...
...Pittsburgh airport the minutes ticked by. At 10:33 a TWA plane landed, but it was not the Sun Racer. Soon the air was full of monotonous, unanswered calls: Pittsburgh calling Flight I. . . . Columbus calling Ferguson on Flight I. . . . Camden calling Flight I. . . . Pittsburgh calling Flight...
Most bus lines had quit cold. Air lines put all available planes into service, worked overtime flying passengers, mail and freight between Newark and Pittsburgh. One TWA plane carried nearly a ton of rubber boots, another some 5,000 telegrams. But even airplanes were forced to quit at night when electric power failures put airport lights and radio beacons out of commission...
Each major U.S. airline has some exclusive quality to boast about. TWA calls itself the "Lindbergh Line." American brags it is "the largest airline in the U.S." United is proud of carrying more passengers, mail and express than any other airline in the world. Last week United had something else to be proud of: Its statement for 1935 showed that it almost made some money...