Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Specifically, Butler mentioned ex-CAB Chairman James Landis, ex-Trustbuster Thurman Arnold, ex-OPA Boss Paul Porter and ex-Under Secretary of the Interior Abe Fortas. He called them "the real influence men ... the professional bleeding hearts of the New Deal who have been converted to the private enterprise system by ... fat legal fees." Butler wanted to outlaw all such representation for at least two years after officials left federal service...
...CAB itself had already cracked down on another non-sked, California's Standard Airlines, for violating the rules for "irregulars" by flying too regularly. It had revoked Standard's operating certificate, effective this week (TIME, July 4) Last week, while Standard awaited the outcome of its appeal on CAB's ruling, one of its planes, a C-46, crashed into a California mountainside. The dead...
Last week, six airline employees' labor unions ran large ads asking CAB to put a stop to it, on the grounds that the planes were unsafe. But CAB ruefully admitted that it had no police powers within a state, unless a local flight had interstate connections...
...scheduled airlines were so jammed for space that the CAB, which had been slapping down unscheduled carriers, let four of them help out. It gave special permits to Seaboard & Western, Transocean, Alaskan and Coastal-all nonscheduled ocean flyers-to haul limited groups of U.S. students and European displaced persons at low summer rates...
Resourceful U.S. domestic wildcats had found another way to get around CAB regulations. By keeping their flights entirely within the borders of one state, they could flip their tails at CAB. In California, six wildcats flew between Los Angeles and San Francisco for $9.95-less than half the fare charged by United, American and four other certified carriers...