Word: lufthansa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the time came for him to fly back to the political roughhousing in Bonn (the Lufthansa Constellation made the trip nonstop from Milwaukee in 13 hours 41 minutes), he got an unforgettable farewell. As his motorcade rolled out to Milwaukee's General Mitchell Field, waiting motorists blasted and blared their horns, while crowds swarmed out of shops and offices and homes to shout and wave goodbye...
POLAR AIR ROUTES are in prospect for T.W.A. and Pan American. With Scandinavian Airlines already making polar runs and Lufthansa and BOAC slated to start soon, CAB will probably certify two U.S. lines in late summer...
WESTERN AIR LINES is taking its first step into the jet age. It will buy nine 410-m.p.h. Lockheed Electra propjet transports (cost: $19.5 million), put them into service in 1959-60. Another jet order: from West Germany's Lufthansa, which is joining the transatlantic jet race by spending about $20 million for four pure-jet Boeing 707s...
...LUFTHANSA, the West German airline reborn less than a year ago, is growing up fast. This spring Lufthansa will expand its 66 intercontinental flights weekly to 488, double schedules to England, France and Spain, switch from five-weekly to daily New York service, add Rio and Buenos Aires to its routes...
...ATLANTIC AIRLINE may be formed by North American Airlines, biggest nonscheduled carrier in the U.S., and the government of Austria. Since Hitler merged its air transport into Lufthansa 17 years ago, Austria has owned no airline. To get back in the air, it is dickering for North American's planes, pilots and experience...