Business: T.W.A.'s Comeback

Up from New York's Idlewild Airport last week roared a Trans World Airline Constellation, bound for a destination new to its crew: Ceylon. Some 41 hours and 10,000 miles later it put down at Colombo, the thriving capital. By week's end it was back with a cargo of 100 lbs. of Ceylon's finest tea, bandar Eliya (cost, $2.17 a lb.), a gift for T.W.A.'s officers for starting the first U.S. air service to the picturesque island. T.W.A. opened the route by extending its Bombay flight 1,000 miles to the southeast.

Ralph Damon, T.W.A.'s president,...

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