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...your May 16 Time Clock item as "non-scheduled"airlines are Slick, Flying Tiger and Riddle. All three are scheduled, certificated airlines. They were certificated on the claim that there should be scheduled service devoted exclusively to freight . . . Also, the item says that the three have just won CAB permission to fly mail at 18½? per ton-mile v. 45? for scheduled lines. What the three were seeking was the right to carry 3? mail at 18½? per ton-mile, which is the rate at which 3? mail is currently being carried by the scheduled airlines...
...people were spending. For the man who. wanted to pace the floor with his hands in his pockets while he talked, the telephone company was selling a phone equipped with a special speaker. In Los Angeles a cab driver announced happily that, "Everybody's tipping big today, even women." The highways were lined with the most spectacular parade of new cars in history, from Ford Crestliners in magenta and ivory to Cadillac Eldorados in "goddess gold" and Wedgwood green...
...AMERICAN AIRWAYS is bidding for a polar route from the U.S. West Coast to Europe. Scandinavian Airlines System, which pioneered the run is booked to capacity for the summer. Pan Am has asked CAB's O.K. to fly one-stop from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle to London and Paris...
...eight-passenger Sikorsky Amphibians, it had added a fleet of 13 dependable, twin-engined DC-35, carried 304,000 passengers annually (without a fatality). H.A.L. passengers had some gripes; they wanted to smoke aloft, complained of too few ticket offices, and charged that H.A.L. discriminated against Asians. In 1949 CAB decided that H.A.L...
...decision last week, CAB thought that one answer would be for Hawaiian Airlines to get rid of its expensive new Convairs. But H.A.L. has flatly refused to do so, said the planes will eventually be cheaper to operate. Says H.A.L. President Arthur D. Lewis: "There is no more reason for continuing to fly obsolete equipment in Hawaii than anywhere else in the United States...