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Congressional Hearing Focuses on Layoffs of Former TWA Employees by American.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2003
By Robert Dodge, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 13--WASHINGTON--Two senators came up empty-handed Thursday as they searched for ways to help Trans World Airlines Inc. employees who were furloughed after the St. Louis-based carrier was swallowed up by American Airlines Inc. two years ago.
"Promises were made that would have led a reasonable person to believe that more would be done for these people than was done," Sen. James Talent, R-Mo., said during a congressional hearing called to discuss the merger and its repercussions.
Former American chief executive Donald Carty and former TWA president William Compton -- who led their companies through the merger -- were invited to testify but both said they...
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