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Word: twa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jazzed-up regimental routine], but I hope not. I think they would be proud." Well here's an ex-regimental officer who's neither old (33) nor dead nor proud ! When a single battalion can field 100 entertainers, it's time for the "Auld Forty Twa" to turn in its kilts and be issued leotards. Aside from the war of the American Revolution and Suez, this is the most asinine campaign British troops have ever participated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 28, 1957 | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

LAYOFFS are coming for Trans World Airlines as first step in economy drive by new President Carter L. Burgess (TIME, Dec. 17). Burgess complains that TWA has hired 4,900 new employees in past two years, says he may cut entire force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...Baltimore and Boston about what it would do for those cities if it got the route, insisted that Pan Am has no equipment "immediately available" for the Boston-Miami run. Turning on Northeast, National and Eastern alleged that it is improperly controlled by Howard Hughes, chief stockholder of TWA, through his 11% interest in the Atlas Corp., owner of Northeast. (Hughes fired off a statement denying the implications of the charge without denying the facts: "I own stock of Atlas Corp. as an investor, but I have no desire to take part in the management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dirty Fight | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

...team, dressed in its official forest green blazers, will leave New York June 24 on a special TWA sportsliner. The main match of the tour, against the combined Oxford-Cambridge squad in the famous Hampton court tennis court, built by King Henry VIII in 1527, will be on July 14 and 15 in London...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: U.S. Court Tennis Team Dominated By Members From Crimson Squad | 6/14/1956 | See Source »

Married. Enos ("Country") Slaughter, 39, outfielder for the Kansas City Athletics, longtime (1938-53) heavy-hitting star of the St. Louis Cardinals; and Helen Spiker, 25, TWA stewardess; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Cumberland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 2, 1956 | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

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