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Show .and 10 or more charter flights Three major airlines now use the field and three more are slated to move in within the next few WUpSlintil 1940, the Newark field was known as the world's busiest airport. Airport officials expect 125 daily flights by March 1, and 200 by Aug. 1. Airways Seek Full Schedule New speed tests having shortened shor-tened travel time between the ends of the world, commercial airlines air-lines had moved this week to set the stage for full-time, post-war schedules. Air transport lines were virtually vir-tually attempting to keep up with the speed of aviation itself in making the most of recent developments de-velopments which had included the spanning of the nation by a heavy transport plane with 52 passengers in seven hours and 27 . minutes. The record for a transport plane, set by a liner of the Transcontinental Trans-continental and Western Air line in a trip from Burbank, Calif., to New York City, is surpassed only by that of a late model light plane which had crossed the nation in slightly more than four hours. At Newark, N. J., the city's major airport, which had been under army control for four years, reopened for commercial use in a rededication ceremony which drew 170,000 visitors to the field. First commercial schedules, said officials, offici-als, called for 85 airline flights |