As a promotion for their new four-engine, 44 passenger luxury service to the Twin Cities, Milwaukee, Chicago and New York, Northwest Airlines flew a select group of reporters and dignitaries from Seattle/Tacoma to New York on May 15, 1946. Julia Lee MacDonald, the woman's editor for the Tacoma Times not only joined the group, she also received a special bonus gift - a $300 hat from Lilly Dache's exclusive hat salon. The black French straw, plain except for a wide spreading bow of velvet, drew an exclamation of "C'est la chapeau" from Madame Dache. At $300, the hat was more expensive then the round-trip airplane tickets. (T. Times, 5/13 & 21/46, p. 1). TPL-8623
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