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...lands at Honolulu Airport for a flight around the islands. Businessmen fly from one island to another for lunch; housewives fly into Honolulu to shop; planters commute by air between farms and cities. Islanders call Hawaiian Airlines, Ltd. the "trolley line." Next week Hawaiian Airlines, with two more DC-3s added to its fleet of eight, will step up its flights from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trolley Line | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

After his father retired, Stan got Inter-Island to give planes a try. He started in November 1929 with two eight-passenger Sikorsky Amphibions. In 1941 Hawaiian bought three Douglas DC-3s, just in time to cash in on war traffic. All Inter-Island's passenger boats were put into troop service, so civilians had to use Hawaiian Airlines to get from island to island. Hawaiian also flew food from outlying ranches into Honolulu, and when Hilo's main laundry closed down (TIME, May 12, 1947), provided two-day service from a laundry on the island of Maui...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trolley Line | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...interest. A few minutes after trading in the bonds began on the New York Stock Exchange, they were bid up from the par value (100) at which they were floated. The 2¼s, maturing in 1957, hit a high of 102, the 25-year 3s a high of 103⅛, then slipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over the Hurdle | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...T.W.A. pilot for nine years, Thornburg entered the Navy in 1940, was an operations officer for the Naval Air Transport Service for the Caribbean and South America. When he got out of the Navy in 1946, he joined Waterman Airlines. With six planes - two DC-4s and four DC-3s - he has operated a nonscheduled service to Puerto Rico, Central America, England, Germany and South Africa, an intrastate line between six Alabama cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Through the Back Door | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

Besides Fruehaufs highballing twice daily to Calabozo, Arocha had ten white-painted DC-3s flying chilled beef to the capital from distant llano towns like Ciudad Bolivar, on the Orinoco, and San Fernando de Apure. This week work was expected to start on another slaughterhouse at Barinas. Already caraqueños found llano meat in the markets at 27? a Ib. Last spring they had paid three times as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Cowboy Comeback | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

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