Word: twa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About the technical operation of well-run TWA, Frye and Richter today have few worries as they fly the line from San Francisco to Newark. But they never look at the instrument board on a line run without seeing on the compass card a sharp reminder of a TWA deficiency: all its routes run east and west. For TWA is, more strictly than its two coast-to-coast competitors (United and American), a transcontinental line, a long thin line with no feeders to bring in side traffic...
AMERICANS READING TIME JUNE 19 WONDER IF TWA'S FACE ISN'T RED? TIME'S ARTICLE MUCH NEEDED SLAP AT AMERICAN JOURNALISM, WHICH PERHAPS WILL LEARN THAT HEROES ARE OFTEN HUMANS...
...from Boston to Los Angeles, flown by an assortment of Condors, Vultees, Stinsons, and generally regarded in aviation as the weakest of the big lines. Last year, by contrast, American was the only transcontinental line to show a profit-$213,000-while its two competitors, United and TWA, lost $997,000 and $773,000 respectively. American is today the biggest and fastest-growing airline in the U. S. In the first four months of 1939 its passenger revenue was 26% over a year...
...asbestos, housed in the plane's tail, spring-mounted against shocks. Its short antenna is a streamlined metal rod running from the fuselage along the leading edge of the plane's vertical stabilizer. Designer Easton chose to set his radio in the tail because he remembered the TWA crash, knew that a plane's tail, having little mass, is seldom demolished in crashes...
...prospector, H. O. Collier, saw something that glittered as he clambered up near the top of 9,000-ft. Buena Vista in the Sierra Nevadas. It was the wreckage of the plane, smashed to bits but unburned. Strewn along the slope were the bodies of the victims. Promised by TWA for Prospector Collier's find...