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...Benny Goodman plays occasional weekend dates, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey have combined their bands, Artie Shaw is out of the music business, Cab Galloway is appearing as a solo singing act. Such sweet-music bandleaders as Guy Lombardo and Sammy Kaye, however, are still going strong...
...long-awaited Civil Aeronautics Board decision on the rich New York-to-Miami airline run came last week. To little (eleven aging DC-3s, six early-model Convairs) Northeast Airlines (1955 net: $379,937) went the grandest prize in the CAB bag: permission to fly the "Gold Coast" run, with National and Eastern...
...seven lines competing for a slice of the world's best air route, Northeast had one of the weakest claims. A CAB examiner had recommended Delta; New York City and Baltimore had officially endorsed Pan Am. Northeast's very weakness, however, turned out to be its strength. It was the only domestic trunk-line still on Government subsidy, receiving $1.8 million from Washington every year, and CAB felt that it had a mandate to get all U.S. airlines off subsidy and flying on their...
...very grateful to Kefauver for his "gracious, spontaneous expression of support." He thought Kefauver was only one among "many qualified candidates for Vice President." It was a long way from an endorsement of anybody-arithmetic or no. In fact, it was something like a friendly wave from the cab as the engineer rolls along the iron without even having to look at his pocket watch to see what time...
...subsidy could be cut $8,000,000 if it got the route. Eastern and National charged Pan Am with carrying on a "tremendous lobbying campaign," using its officers, from President Juan Trippe on down, to pressure Government officials into making "informal and off-the-record" approaches to the CAB on Pan Am's behalf. They denounced Pan Am's "misrepresentations" to Baltimore and Boston about what it would do for those cities if it got the route, insisted that Pan Am has no equipment "immediately available" for the Boston-Miami run. Turning on Northeast, National and Eastern alleged...