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Slick lost heavily in a two-year rate war with American and other big scheduled airlines that ended in 1948 when CAB set up minimum rates based on Slick's costs. Slick got a bigger break in 1949 when CAB gave him a 52-city, transcontinental route tapping the major traffic centers. Thus, for the first time, he could fly regular, advertised schedules...
Calm Air. Slick drummed up new trade (textiles, television and auto parts) and opened up new markets, flying Christmas mistletoe from Dallas to Manhattan, Texas okra to Detroit's big colony of Southern workers. Last year, after complaining to CAB that airmail-subsidized American and the big boys were still harassing his unsubsidized line, Slick slapped a $30 million suit on them, charging antitrust violations. After that, he says, they let him alone...
...almost 6,000,000 in December. Slick knows there may be plenty of bumps ahead, but thinks he has weathered the worst. "This business is just in its infancy," says he. "All the U.S. domestic air freight hauled last year amounted to only 172,500,000 ton-miles, yet CAB itself estimates the potential at 1 billion...
...railroads and 2.0 for autos and taxis). Air travel accounted for 2.9% of intercity passengers carried by public carriers in the U.S. in 1950 (v. 37.1% for trains and 60% for buses) and 11.5% of the total passenger-miles racked up. But, said CAB Vice Chairman Oswald Ryan last week, "Air transportation has not been brought within reach of the masses of people of limited means." Until it is, the U.S. commercial aviation industry will not really have come...
Specialist. In Cleveland, on the day he was to receive an award for 20 years of driving without a traffic violation, Cab Driver Clarence Vogel got a ticket for jaywalking...