Word: feeders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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North Carolinians, who sometimes call their state "a valley of humiliation between two mountains of conceit," last week had something to crow about. The Civil Aeronautics Board, which ordinarily renews the certificates of "feeder" airlines for only three years, broke precedent by issuing a seven-year renewal to North Carolina's tiny but fast-growing Piedmont Airlines. In addition, CAB awarded Piedmont four new routes, and gave Piedmont a public pat on the back for its "outstanding record...
...years, Piedmont's founder and president, Thomas H. (for Henry) Davis, 32, has stretched a $14,000 investment in a plane agency into an airline with twelve DC-3s and 2,230 miles of routes reaching from Wilmington, N.C. to Cincinnati. Although Davis' airline is technically a "feeder" (i.e., a supplier for trunk-line routes), 47% of its passengers ride only Piedmont. President Davis runs his line so efficiently that he needed only 24% in airmail pay per $1 of gross revenue to break even last year, while other feeders require as much as 46? for Southwest...
...then formed Piedmont Aviation Inc. to combine plane sales, maintenance, flying instruction and charter service. When World War II broke, he began training Air Force flying instructors and ferry pilots. By war's end Davis had piled up $60,000 in profits and was ready to start his feeder line...
Creaseman Jim Dorsey won final scoring honors with 30 points, while attackman Tom Whedon ended the season with 29, Dorsey punched home 22 goals, high for the squad, John Taylor, the '55 team's feeder, was tops in assists with...
Dusk was fading as the radar operators and bombardiers mumbled over slide rules and fed a mass of specifications on target, course and weather into their mysterious banks of electronic panels. Then the B-29s coughed into life, wheeled ponderously down the feeder taxiways to thunder off into the rain at three-minute intervals...