Word: twa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bring him more American planes and landing rights-in effect, make TACA a U.S. flag line. When the U.S. was slow to get behind TACA, Yerex tried dickering with the British, tried to get them to buy out the American interests. This irritated TACA's new stockholders, chiefly TWA and Pennroad Corp., an investment trust; so did Yerex's highhanded way of running things. They began to bring him down to earth...
...When TWA gets its first commercial Constellations in a few weeks, it will start its commercial flights across the Atlantic forthwith. Jack Frye promised that TWA's new beauties could fly nonstop from New York to Paris in about 14 hours, little more than half the present flying time of Pan American Airways Corp. and American Export Airlines, Inc. Furthermore, said Mr. Frye unctuously, TWA will cut the present transatlantic fare of $572 substantially, set it at a "reasonable" figure...
...TWA will also put Constellations on transcontinental routes, to cut the coast-to-coast time to ten hours...
...TWA. For this feat, Lockheed's Bob Gross has to share the credit with Jack Frye and Howard Hughes, the thin-faced, lanky flyer, tool maker, brewer, financier and movie maker, who owns the controlling interest in TWA. Six years ago, Hughes and Frye decided that TWA should expand its routes around the world. For this, they needed a new plane. So they drew up specifications for the Constellation, gave Lockheed the job of designing and building...
Fortnight ago the Army canceled its contract, made Constellations available to airlines. Now Hughes and Frye will get the first twelve Constellations before the other lines get any. By the time Pan Am et al get theirs, TWA expects to have such a start that the postwar air race will be just a vapor trail...