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Commercial airlines-like private flying -are controlled by the rules and regulations of the Civil Aeronautics Board, nominally under the Department of Commerce but empowered to act as an independent agency. CAB consists of five oddly assorted Presidential appointees who have been catapulted into the prize administrative berths of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: CAB and the American Sky | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

Floyd Stahl, baseball mentor, simply doesn't know what sort of a team he will field this summer, but there will be a team. Several games have already been tentatively arranged, and practice is scheduled to start next week. Just who will show up depends on the Navy's policy...

Author: By Robert S. Landau, | Title: Passing the Buck | 7/6/1943 | See Source »

Vacationing Eleanor Roosevelt watched Broadway Producer John Golden finish his portable stage in Hyde Park's library. U.S. Army actors were ready to give the five one-acters, written by Army men, which had recently tickled Broadway on a one-night stand. Settling down for the show, Franklin D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hyde Park Double Take | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

June 24, 1942 was a hot, dull, newsless day at San Francisco police headquarters. The reporters were: bored, thirsty, broke. Then one had an idea: "Let's throw a party. This is Booker T. Washington Day." There really is no such thing, but the energized reporters called every politician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Booker T. Day | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

One of the toughest spots in U.S. education is the city of Hamtramck,* Mich. Hamtramck is a nest of factories, beer parlors and brothels entirely surrounded by Detroit. Hamtramckers were prominent among 400-odd Wayne County public servants indicted in recent years for assorted civic crimes. In two decades four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Trouble In Hamtrack | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

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