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ommerce and Trade Los Angeles Times Homes and Builders
SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1934.
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CITY PLANS HUGE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT
Architectural concept of proposed new administration building for the city's airport. Design prepared by Walker & Eisen, architects.
This view shows some of the structures at the Municipal Airport and discloses the type of architecture for construction program there.
Aerial view of buildings at the city's airport. A structural investment if $200,000 already has been made there.
Photo by Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc.
WORLD-WIDE IMPORTANCE FORECAST FOR TERMINUS
Landing Expansions, Structural and Industrial Projects Told in Extensive Program
BY CHARLES C. COHAN
Real Estate Editor
Airplanes, great and small, flocking into and out from Los Angeles, even to and from trans-Pacific points, in such numbers as in the next decade will prove this city a pacemaker fro all the world in aviation progress.  And along with this aerial advancement, an expansion of airplane manufacturing scope here that will be of tremendous importance to all the Southland's welfare. That is the picture now in process of being materialized here.
HUGE INCREASE FORESEEN
It is estimated by those who are close students of aeronautical development that the aviation industry in and about Los Angeles will be employing not fewer than 10,000 men within the next three years, and that the air transport services to Southern California will increase their volume of business by 500 per cent before 1940.
Into all this vision of progress the city's airport facilities necessarily must enter.
AT CITY'S FIELD
And that brings into foreground importance a program of expansion proposed for the Municipal Airport, Mines Field, as one of the most interesting and important developments in the city's 1935 calendar.
This development, it is forecast, will make the city's airport one of the greatest in the world both in facilities and also in scope of aircraft handled. A survey just announced reveals the airport to be within twenty-five minutes of highway travel of a population of almost 2,000,000, the largest anywhere west of Chicago.
NEW FACILITIES
It is proposed to increase its landing lanes extensively and construct a number of large buildings...this program to represent an expenditure of from $800,000 to $1,000,000. The funds are being sought from the Federal government and the State.
Not only are the landing facilities designed to conform to the most modern standards of efficiency, but the architectural concepts for the structures are distinctively Southern Californian and in conformity with the designs of structures already built at the airport.
IMPORTANT STEP
Of interest in connection with its contemplated increase of a terminal importance is the fact that Mayor Shaw recently signed an ordinance unanimously indorsed by the Council, authorizing the execution of a lease whereby TWA, Inc. transcontinental lines, could move its western terminus to the Municipal Airport.
The ordinance, signed November 28, becomes effective in thirty days from time of its being signed, it was announced.
INDUSTRIAL FEATURES
Just southerly of the field stands the great Northrup Corporation aircraft plant, a subsidiary of the Douglas company. The Northrup plant is fulfilling a contract for 110 army planes.
On December 8, last, the City
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