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Last week Airman Carmichael, now 44, took on a bigger job. After four years of dickering, he signed an agreement to merge Capital with Northwest Airlines and form the biggest (8,089 route miles) U.S. domestic airline system. It is the latest of a series of mergers,* now pending CAB action, designed to strengthen U.S. airlines. If the deal is approved, as expected, Carmichael will become president and operations boss of the new line. Northwest's President Croil Hunter, 58, will become board chairman...
Sirens screamed through the afternoon, and the last flames were still flickering when furious citizens began their protest. The airport must go. All week long, investigators swarmed over the scene-from Washington, from the New Jersey legislature, from the CAA, the CAB. But Elizabethans were not half so interested in causes of the crash as they were in the exasperating probability that the airport would operate as usual, at least for ten months. Then, if construction is complete, a new instrument runway will bring traffic in over the marshlands to the east...
...local strike by the United Mine Workers District 50 against the Checker Cab Company over the firing of three drivers Monday remained unsettled yesterday...
However, a spokesman for the union said last night that he thought that the company would soon be making overtures. The spokesman said that the owner of the cab company had flown back from Florida and that the company was expected to start negotiations...
Colonial's biggest business is in summer over its northern routes (see map). By merging, the lines would feed passengers into each other all the way from Havana, Cuba, equalize year-round traffic. CAB will probably approve the deal since it has been prodding Colonial to merge with another airline as a way out of its troubles. In 1951, Colonial pulled out of the red for the first time in five years with the help of a $13-per-ton-mile payment for carrying air mail v. 54? per ton mile to National operating on more profitable mail routes...