Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long a sore point with New Yorkers has been Newark's virtual monopoly as the terminal of the Metropolitan district's passenger, mail & commercial air traffic. No New Yorker has had so long or so sharp a knife out for Newark as New York's flying...
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Relentlessly backing any rival to Newark as long as it was situated in New York State he battled valiantly to have Brooklyn's remote Floyd Bennett Field made the city's official air terminal, even sponsored in 1933 a scheme for a metropolitan airport on Governor's Island, which would have nestled under the city's towering skyline and been suicidal to passengers and pilots. A year later he leased the land for what was to become a more practical project: to enlarge North Beach Airport on Flushing Bay, Queens...
...gouged out the first scoopful of sand in his $13,000,000 project. The hiss of steam as he inexpertly spilled half the giant spoon's earth near the waiting truck was not less searingly exultant than the blast that came from the swart, little Mayor of New York: "This will be to Newark as Kirsten Flagstad is to Gypsy Rose...
...Borough Bridge. Although $2,358,000 went into the land, runways, hangars, seaplane ramps, beacons & facilities for servicing visiting planes when Curtiss-Wright built North Beach in 1929. only schools, private flyers and taxis patronized the field. No line made it a terminus. In 1934 the City of New York agreed to buy it for $1,500,000, leased the property in the meantime for $1 a year, wiped out its $30,000 taxes. North Beach then became Municipal Airport No. 2 (Floyd Bennett is No. i) and when President Roosevelt aboard his yacht fortnight ago assigned...
Since regular passenger flights began in 1919, more than 2,300 airports have dotted the U. S., of which less than 10% are scheduled airline stops. Most are already out of date, many are dangerous to big, heavily loaded luxury liners. Among the 16 odd airports serving Greater New York, none can qualify with the Air Commerce Bureau's classification as super terminals (4,000 ft. runways in four directions plus two miles of clear approaches). But the metropolis has many places where a pilot can sit down...