Word: twa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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United's Douglas order brings one step nearer the scheme of five major U. S. airlines to standardize equipment. For months United, American, Eastern Air, TWA and Pan American have discussed burying the competitive hatchet, pooling their resources to pay for a fleet of huge land airliners which would be twice the size of the DST, carry 40 passengers, mount four motors, cost $200,000 apiece. According to the "Big Five," such super-transports would enable the airlines to make money, cease being dependent upon airmail subsidies. At present, air traffic is increasing so rapidly that 14-passenger planes...
...TWA President Jack Frye: The Bureau changed its beacons and equipment without informing the airlines. On the occasion of Senator Cutting's death, the Kansas City radio beam was turned off while the plane was groping in fog overhead. Had it been in operation, the accident might not have occurred...
What the Railway Express Agency is to railroads, two rival companies have long been to airlines. Company No. 1 is Railway Express itself, with Pan American, United, twelve other airlines in its fold. Company No. 2 is General Air Express, a pool created by TWA, American, five other airlines, with pickups and deliveries handled by Postal Telegraph...
Left holding the bag of the virtually exterminated General Air Express were only TWA, Louisiana's Wedell-Williams Air Service Corp., and Wilmington-Cataline Airline Ltd. These three were expected to fall in line shortly...
Short, baldish, TWA Pilot Edward A. Bellande, who landed seven passengers with only one minor injury, saved most of his mail when his plane caught fire between San Francisco and Los Angeles...