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...more miles a year in heavy traffic is exposed to exhaust fumes that multiply his risk of lung cancer by as much as two or three. And the rate is doubled for those who live in smoke-polluted, downtown areas like Cincinnati's "Basin" district. A heavy-smoking cab driver who lives there multiplies his danger by all these factors and runs a risk of lung cancer 40 to 120 times greater than that of a nonsmoking farmer...
...FARES will get their first overall investigation from CAB. Under congressional pressure, CAB will check to see if fares it okayed for 13 domestic trunk lines are too high. A better target for CAB: international air fares, which in some cases are more than 200% higher than domestic routes over comparable distances...
...LINER to compete with Boeing and Douglas planes will be built by Howard Hughes if he gets CAB permission. Already planning a big Florida aircraft plant (TIME, April 23), Hughes wants his Hughes Tool Co. to add planes to its electronics business, build 25 faster, longer-ranged jets for Trans World Airlines, which he also controls. First step: get CAB to lift a 1944 ruling that T.W.A. may not buy more than $10,000 worth of equipment annually from Hughes Tool...
...with his activities as a lawyer. At the White House there was quick reaction. Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty announced that in 1954 Chotiner had discussed airline cases pending before the Civil Aeronautics Board with Willis and Rabb, but there was no evidence of any impropriety. In both cases CAB handed down decisions against the Chotiner clients...
GLOBAL FLIGHTS are growing so fast (12,768 passengers in 1955 v. 444 in 1950) that the Civil Aeronautics Board wants more competition for Pan American, now the only U.S. flying round-the-world line. A CAB examiner recommended that Trans World Airlines get a link into Manila, where it can connect up with Northwest Airlines to form a global...