Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane was a Transcontinental & Western airliner which had taken off from Camden, N. J. in perfect mechanical condition with ten passengers, two pilots and a hostess, bound for Pittsburgh's Allegheny Airport. At the wheel was 32-year-old Captain Frederick Lawrence Bohnet, a TWA veteran. The sky was overcast but the weather relatively smooth. Flying above the clouds Capt. Bohnet brought his big ship to Pittsburgh without trouble. At 6:33 p. m. he crossed the airport "cone of silence" at 5,000 ft. out of sight of ground. He was ordered to circle once while another plane...
Last autumn Transcontinental & Western Air infuriated its two major rivals, United and American Airlines, by cutting its fares about to railroad levels (TIME, Nov. 9). TWA took this risky step for two reasons: to counteract the usual traffic slump in winter and to counterbalance the fact that both United and American temporarily had more luxurious equipment. American got the first Douglas DC-3 sleepers last year, did not dare put an extra fare on them in the face of TWA's cuts. United, however, did add a $2 surcharge for the non-stop run from Newark to Chicago which...
...Western Nevada can and does boast of its climate. Many a Nevadan refers to it as the "champagne climate" (exhilarating...
...book. The Fault of Angels (TIME, Aug. 28, 1933), a lightly satirical story of the Rochester, N. Y. music colony. Actually Author Horgan has since then written three others. Last week his latest went zipping past the window. This time it was less like a milestone than a winged western sandwich with the lifegiving onion omitted...
Humane considerations and the danger of a general war apart, it is unwise to allow the fighting to keep on until one side crushes the other. The progress of the campaigns indicates a slow victory for the rebels; indeed Italy could never allow a Communist country to dominate the western Mediterranean. If the war works itself out, General Franco may become the military head of an impoverished country with the bulk of the working class opposed and the nations which sent him troops clamoring for return favors. Another powder barrel may be put in the magazine of Europe. The alternative...