Word: twa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jack Frye left the presidency of TWA amid predictions that it would become a "Toonerville airline." It refused to buy new equipment, canceled the order for 18 Constellations which expansive Jack Frye wanted. Howard Hughes, who controls TWA, thought that what the airline needed was efficient economic operation of the planes it had. To get it, he put La Motte T. Cohu in as TWA president...
Tough, canny Mr. Cohu, World War I flyer and ex-board chairman of Northrop Aircraft Inc., lost no time in swinging his new broom-and his ax. He spent so much time flying from one TWA office to another that a TWA underling quipped: "The loneliest place in the company is the president's office in Kansas City...
...Brewster he blared: "Since you think it is so horrible for anyone to accept my hospitality, why don't you tell about the $1,400 worth of airplane trips you requested and accepted from me? . . . Why not tell that this investigation was really born the day that TWA [in which Hughes is the principal stockholder] first flew the Atlantic . . . the day TWA first challenged the theory that only Juan Trippe's great Pan American Airways had the sacred right to fly the Atlantic...
...news about T.W.A. seemed bad last week. The TWA Constellation Star of Cairo cracked up in Eire, killing twelve (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). And the partnership between thin, erratic Howard Hughes, who controls T.W.A., and roly-poly, even-tempered Jack Frye, who runs it, cracked up. But the second crack-up might prove to be good news for T.W.A...
Airline companies announced cancellation of all evening flights and of TWA's 9 o'clock plane to Chicago this morning, as the railroads, already jammed with holiday travelers, disclosed that trains were running hours behind schedule. No other plane cancellations had been announced by midnight...