Word: twa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost every big U.S. airline (TIME, June 27). Under an agreement signed by the State Department, Lufthansa will get routes from West Germany to Chicago and the U.S. East Coast, and from there to the Caribbean and South America, plus a polar route to the West Coast. In return, TWA and Pan American will get the privilege of picking up passengers from six German cities for flights around the world. Snapped Florida's Senator George Smathers: "A thoughtless and completely unjustified giveaway...
...Other Side. In the U.S. reservation clerks and travel agents were hard pressed to keep up with jingling telephones and lines at the ticket counters. Though airline tickets on first-class nights abroad are still in fair supply, tourist flights have been almost sold out. TWA's tourist nights for June are 85% booked, and Pan American's tourist runs are reserved from 60 to 90 days ahead. Ocean liners are even more popular. The U.S. Lines' 1,700-passenger United States and 950-passenger America are booked solid for all tourist and cabin classes until August...
...such a leg!" The little boy's eyes blaze. Striking at her with a little whip, he cries furiously: "Dinna speak of it!" But when he meets another small boy with a deformed foot, the little monster's rage turns to laughter: "Come and see the twa laddies with the twa clubfeet going up the Broadstreet!" This boyish portrait soon gives way to a stranger, far more puzzling picture. The teachings of Calvin and John Knox add another dimension to Byron's thoughts, another torment to his emotions. "He seemed delighted to converse with me," writes...
...orders on its books, Martin does not have enough working capital to keep going. One reason: it was hard hit in the postwar collapse of the airplane industry. Another: it took such heavy losses on its new 4-0-4 transport, which it sold to Eastern Air Lines and TWA at too low a price, that its 1950 net of $3.1 million turned into an estimated 1951 loss of more than $20 million...
Under the rescue plan announced by Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball last week, Martin will get up to $32 million from RFC, Eastern, TWA and a group of banks-notably Manhattan's Chase and Pittsburgh's Mellon. The banks will "bring in new top personnel to strengthen the company's management." But other planemakers thought that "strengthening," whatever that means, might not be enough. What Martin needed, they thought, was a new management...