Word: twa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airlines-Pan American, TWA, American, Northwest Orient, Continental, United, National and World Airways-have ordered 70 of the big planes. Other orders have come from Lufthansa German Airlines, Japan Air Lines, BOAC, Air France, Alitalia, Irish International Airlines, KLM and Air-India. Most of the carriers prefer a first-and tourist-class seating that allows for 350 to 362 passengers. To Boeing, which had originally planned the 747 as a military transport that would be similar to Lockheed's successful C-5A, this almost negates the whole idea of the nine-abreast economy airliners. To prove the point, Boeing...
...Need for Branches. Actually, the infant airline is also battling five other carriers: Pacific, Pacific Southwest, Western, United and TWA. Last year the big boys hauled 4,000,000 passengers over the 347-mile run between San Francisco and Los Angeles, the world's most heavily traveled air corridor. The idea that the corridor needed more branches struck Economist William E. Myers, 32, as he wrestled with Orange County statistics at his small market-research firm in Newport Beach. After all, with a population up from 216,000 in 1950 to 1,200,000, Orange is the fastest-growing...
...medals, he flew the Spirit of St. Louis to every state in the Union, pleading the future of aviation in a high, reedy Midwestern voice. Though he turned down million-dollar contracts for movies and cigarette endorsements, he accepted offers from Pan Am and Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. (later TWA), to become a consultant. Stock options made him a millionaire almost overnight. The Minnesota farm boy and barnstorming pilot moved more and more in the ambiance of the very rich. Among them he found his wife-Anne Morrow, daughter of ex-Morgan Partner Dwight Morrow, who was then ambassador...
...Lindbergh against U.S. entry into World War II that he raised the specter of an interventionist conspiracy composed of "the British, the Jews and the Roosevelt Administration," adding remarks about Jewish influence in communications and Government. Naturally, such talk got him into deeper trouble. TWA stopped billing itself as "the Lindbergh Line." President Franklin Roosevelt compared him to a "copperhead." Lindbergh resigned from the Army Air Corps Reserve. His attitude may have been a kind of proud echo. Twenty-four years before, his own Congressman father had denounced World War I with equal vigor (on the ground that...
...cheap package tours ($398 for 15 days visiting London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Nürnberg, Innsbruck, Venice, Florence, Rome, Lucerne and Paris). Such prices are within the range of almost everyone-from $90-a-week secretaries to $7,500-a-year family men. And already the big international airlines-TWA, Pan Am, BOAC -are booked solid for their 21-day trips throughout July and early August...