Here are the first citations for "World Trade Center" and "Twin Towers," as they apply to the construction that was destroyed on September 11, 2001.

27 January 1960, New York Times, pg. 1:
A WORLD CENTER
OF TRADE MAPPED
OFF WALL STREET
(...)
A World Trade Center that may cost $250,000,000 was proposed yesterday for thirteen and a half acres along the East River, adjoining New York's downtown financial district.

14 March 1961, New york Herald Tribune, pg. 26 editorial:
The World Trade Center We Must Have

19 January 1964, New York Times, pg. 78:
A New Era Heralded

Architectural Virtue of Trade Center
Expected to Enhance City's Skyline
By ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE

It was big business inside and little business outside at the New York Hilton yesterday as the small-store owners to be displaced by the World Trade Center picketed the formal unveiling of the monumental eight-foot model of the even more monumental 16-acre project for downtown Manhattan.
(...)
Here the delicate verticality of the handsome twin towers is no curtain wall paste-over; these slender ribs are visible metal-sheathed supporting steel columns that form a wall-supporting truss.

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