Friday, August 4, 1933

We sold some more trash and got a dime for it. We got us all some candy. Nadine was down and we all went out and played.

Trans World Airlines
Founded in 1925 as Western Air Express

TWA's corporate history dates from the July 16, 1930, forced merger of

Transcontinental Air Transport (T-A-T) and Western Air Express to form

Transcontinental & Western Air (T&WA). The companies merged at the

urging of Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, who was looking for bigger

airlines to give airmail contracts.

Both airlines brought high-profile aviation pioneers who would give the airline

the panache of being called "The Airline Run by Flyers." Transcontinental, the

bigger of the two, had the marquee expertise of Charles Lindbergh and was already

offering a 48-hour combination of plane and train trip across the United States. Western,

which was slightly older having been founded in 1925, had the expertise of Jack Frye.

On October 25, 1930, the airline offered one of the first all-plane scheduled service

 from coast to coast: the Lindbergh Route. The route took 36 hours and initially called

for overnights in Kansas City. In summer 1931, TWA moved its headquarters from New

 York to Kansas City, Missouri, where it remained until 1964, when it moved back to New York.