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maximum publicity coverage. Huge[[crossed-out]]h[[/crossed-out]] crowds greeted them everywhere. In Washington D.C., Lawson's passengers included a group of the highest government and military dignitaries. Soon Lawson made a second tour of midwestern cities. 

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As a result of these successful flights Lawson had ambitio[[crossed-out]]n[[/crossed-out]]us plans for building a fleet of airliners and starting national mail and passenger lines. Burnelli left the Lawson Aircraft Company at that time and returned east. Lawson went on to build a second large airliner, a tri-motored plane but it had structual damage at the start of the first trial flight and the project was given up. The Lawson Aircraft Company of Milwaukee was dissolved in 1921. He then organized a company in New York serving as a consultant and promoting aviation ideas. He [[left margin]] checkmark [[/left margin]] also did some work on buses and a transoceanic flot landing system. Later Lawson [[left margin]] checkmark [[/left margin]] was involved in the "Townsend Share-the-Wealth Plan[[crosed-out]]e[[/crossed-out]]" and edited a publication pertaining to it, call the "Benefactor." After that he started the Des Moines University in Iowa. Some of his ideas led to the establishment of a cult of persons who believed in 'Lawsonomy."

Alfred Lawson never married. He died in San Antonio, Texas, November 29, 1954, at age 85. 

Alfred W. Lawson was one of the true pioneers of air transporation in the United States. A publisher, showman, promoter, and salesman, a man of unusual visi[[crossed-out]]i[[/crossed-out]]on, he was too early with his ambitions but must be credited with promoting, building, and flying the first true passenger airliner in the United States. 

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