Word: twa
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Trans World Airlines, the nation's fourth largest airline, last week moved to acquire Northeast Airlines, which serves New England and also has a New York-Miami route. For TWA, merger with Northeast will complete the New York-Miami leg of its triangle between the West Coast, Miami and New York. Although TWA will be stuck with Northeast's money-losing New England feeder services, it will pick up passengers for its long-haul and international runs. To Northeast, which lost $7,000,000 last year and is still in the red, merger will provide seriously needed working...
...looking for. The lack of vibration is fantastic. Vibration has the same effect on businessmen as work does-it tires them out. We want them to get there fresh and rested." Delta's Woolman has only a few months before other lines start getting their own Convairs. TWA has 30 of the 880s on order, will get its first this summer. Next year American Airlines will get an advanced design: the Convair 600. At 35,000 ft., American's Convair 600s are planned to cruise at 635 m.p.h., only 135 m.p.h. below the speed of sound...
...start of the eleven-month investigation, crash detectives from the Italian and U.S. governments,TWA, and Lockheed Aircraft, builder of the plane, had precious few clues to go on. "It was a mess," said one of the experts. "All we could tell at first was that the right wing had come off in midair.'' All servicing and takeoff procedures were normal; the pilot had reported no trouble by radio. At the wooded crash site, technicians gathered the twisted fragments and sorted them into the plane's component parts. Metallurgical tests showed that the fuel tanks had been...
Last week Capital was ordered to hire Miss Banks, after an informal attempt failed to persuade the line to give her a stewardess' job and thereby avoid a legal order-as TWA had done two years ago when a similar complaint was filed against it. Capital not only denied discrimination against Miss Banks, but argued that New York State had no jurisdiction since Capital's home office is in Washington...
...State of New York." and conducts some 22 pre-employment procedures there, the commission argued that it has jurisdiction. Capital got 30 days in which to hire Patricia Banks as a stewardess or face contempt proceedings in New York courts. Of all the major U.S. airlines, only TWA and Mohawk have hired Negro stewardesses: two all told...