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Foreseeing a great potential market by the mid-1950s, the Airline Textile Manufacturing Company of Des Moines, Iowa, (also known as Airtex) began to produce licensed, United-branded bags in large numbers. These bags were sold through mail-order catalogs, at airport stores, and handed out to customers at travel and tourist agencies. By the late 1950s, United featured service promotions on their bags along with the airline’s newly-introduced Douglas DC-8 Jet Mainliner. Miniature children’s versions of the flight bags filled with candy were also available at airport gift shops. See "Flying the Main Line: A History of United Airlines", on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. http://bit.ly/TheMainLine Image: United Air Lines Douglas DC-8 flight bag and miniature flight bag, 1960s. Gifts of Thomas G. Dragges. 2002.015.002, 2001.146.048 This image was posted on October 25, 2017.

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