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...also worked with Garry Osborne, TIME Inc. communications chief, in setting up a special network of telephone and teletype circuits capable of handling hundreds of thousands of words each day. Bermingham arranged for a special cab service for correspondents and photographers, and prepared a directory of strategic locations-hotels, map of the convention hall...
...nonscheduled U.S. freight airlines on the transatlantic run. Trans World Airlines and Pan American are the only scheduled U.S. carriers making freight flights over the route, and most of their cargo takes second place to passengers. Last week, pressed by the urgent shipments of U.S. aid abroad, the CAB handed a big slice of the business to a younger airline. Its name: Seaboard & Western Airlines, Inc., which has flown some 2,700 flights across the Atlantic and Pacific since 1947 as a nonscheduled carrier...
...CAB gave Seaboard permission to make 72 flights a month to Europe, Asia and the Middle East on a temporary basis, provided that it carries at least 40% Government cargo on its outbound trips. Thus, Seaboard will be able to set up regular flights, get the benefits of scheduled service. CAB, which once turned down Seaboard's application for permanent scheduled Atlantic routes, also agreed to reconsider the application...
...Seaboard, vainly seeking a certificate since 1947, the victory was moral as well as financial. It came as a direct recommendation from President Truman, who is interested in building up transoceanic cargo carriers for use in case of war. To this influential voice, Seaboard itself added some strong arguments. CAB's own figures, said Seaboard, showed that Pan American and T.W.A. together had flown only nine scheduled all-cargo flights last year while foreign airlines took the big share of the U.S. air cargo business with 339 flights. Furthermore, the U.S. lines' share of the cargo business dropped...
...first discovered this year, they drank manzanilla in fake gypsy caves, trooped past the magnificent pictures in the Prado, and visited the "house of El Greco" in Toledo -in which he never lived (it was built near the site of his home some years after his death). Tourists overtipped cab drivers, loaded up with mantillas, castanets and other trinkets, and thus sent prices up. The bullfights roused strong emotions in them: they either cheered the bull, marveled at the matador, or fainted at the sight of blood...