Word: twa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later the record-breaking Douglas was scheduled to make a dawn-to-dusk round-trip flight between Newark and Lines' new Miami to high-speed inaugurate schedules Eastern with Air Douglas equipment. Pioneered by TWA, which put up $140,000 for its development, the Douglas Luxury Airliner is now used by Eastern Air. General Air Lines, American Airlines, Pan American Airways, Royal Dutch Air Lines, Deutsche Lufthansa, Swissair, Spanish Airlines and Austrian Airlines...
With its 200-m.p.h. Douglases linking the coasts in 14 hours, TWA this year set a new standard in air transport which other lines must sooner or later meet. Last week two major airlines famed for their safety records announced their entry into the superspeed class. Eastern Air Lines, which has flown 300,000 passengers 25,000,000 miles without a single fatality,* will operate an eight-hour express service from New York to Miami with a fleet of Douglases to be delivered by Jan. 1. Northwest Airlines, which in eight years has flown 80,000 passengers...
...Langley Field, Va. from Newark one day last week flew Col. Lindbergh in the new Northrop Gamma transport mail plane which TWA's Vice President Jack Frye piloted from coast to coast three weeks ago in 11 hr., 31 min. (227 m.p.h.). Also to Langley Field went some 200 other leaders of U. S. aviation, including Orville Wright, for the ninth annual aircraft engineering research conference of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Run off with precise showmanship by affable, grey-haired Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames, committee chairman and president of Johns Hopkins University, the conference developed from...
...Wrestern Air ( ················), stretching from Newark to Los Angeles via Philadelphia, Columbus, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Albuquerque. This, the "Lindbergh" line, is the shortest route from coast to coast. Connecting the United and TWA transcontinental routes in two places are Western Air Express routes, one from Cheyenne to Albuquerque and the other from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles ( ). On the former route, a new mail contract will be awarded only from Cheyenne to Pueblo. Down the Atlantic Coast, from Newark to Miami...
...York Shipbuilding's stock. This operation is what prompted La Motte Turck Cohu, whom Cord ousted as president of Aviation Corp., to growl: "The air transport business will be torn away from the pioneer operators . . . and put into the hands of speculators." President Richard W. Robbins of TWA growled: "Postmaster General Farley has extended an open invitation for all the crapshooters of the vintage of 1929. . . ." It is fact that Franklin D. Roosevelt flew via American Airways to Chicago to accept his nomination (paying for ten tickets); that Mrs. Roosevelt used American Airways on her western trip last year...