A late-WW II advertisement for Northwest Airlines (decades before its absorption by Delta) incorporating sketches of two Douglas DC-4s, one headed “west” and the other “east”.
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NOW!
NORTHWEST PASSAGE
ACROSS THE TOP OF THE COUNTRY
Coast-to-Coast air line flies direct from New York-Detroit to Seattle-Portland
Northwest Passage is here … to round out the nation’s air transport system, as the fourth coast-to-coast air line.
It brings – for the first time – the advantages of fast, direct coast-to-coast air service to the great cities across the top of the country.
NORTHWEST AIRLINES
Information and reservations at: 535 Fifth Avenue, New York, Telephone: VANderbilt 6-6360