Word: twa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Civil Aeronautics Board has refused to allow a special 30-day excursion jet fare of $198 between Boston and Los Angeles or San Francisco. United Airlines and TWA were ordered Wednesday to charge the regular fare of $295.60. All lines flying this route will have to comply with the order...
Cruise of a Lifetime. At first, it appeared that Harvey had committed suicide in a spasm of grief. His wife, Mary Dene, 34, a former TWA airline hostess and a bride of four months, had died just five days earlier, in the sinking of the chartered, 60-ft. ketch Bluebelle, which her husband skippered. Julian Harvey had been plucked from the sea in the yacht's dinghy with the body of René Duperrault, 7, another passenger...
Surrounded by a robed retinue of 20 that included four sword-and-pistol-toting bodyguards and one of his four current wives (lifetime total: at least two score), Saudi Arabia's King Saud, 59, descended from a chartered TWA jet at Boston's Logan International Airport and turned himself in to the nearby Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Immediate prospect for Saud: six weeks of treatment for what was reported to be a gastric ulcer...
...Hughes, a consortium of eleven U.S. banks and insurance companies did its best to put him out of the airline business. In return for a $165 million loan that Trans World Airlines desperately needed to finance its new jet fleet, the consortium obliged Hughes to place his 78% of TWA's stock in a trusteeship. Last week, clearly unfazed by his setback at TWA, wily Howard Hughes, 55, made a dramatic bid for re-entry into commercial aviation. His newest ploy: a request to the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to acquire control of Boston's Northeast Airlines...
Humiliating Choice. A bigger reason for Northeast's losses, which hit $10.8 million in 1960, was the fact that the line could not match the jet service offered by its competitors. To its aid late last year went Hughes, who at that time still controlled TWA and harbored a grand scheme for merging Northeast and TWA. Hughes let Northeast take delivery on six Convair 880s that he had originally ordered for TWA and gave Northeast a $9,500,000 loan to help cover the cost of the transition to jets...