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...affable man who asks almost everybody on second meeting to "Call me Al." He is square-shouldered and peppery, a handsome, wavy-haired oldster (73) with a keen eye for his well-tailored clothes and his role as an "Important Man." Alvanley Johnston stepped down from the cab of a locomotive and into a rumpled blue suit about 40 years ago. At 71, his blue eyes still have the engineer's squint, his round face the deep lines of a man who has long worked outdoors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: These Two Men | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...days when American commercial air policy was being set, President Truman had shown no particular interest in it. He had let the Civil Aeronautics Board plot the course and fly the plane. But last week, to the vast discomfiture of Pan American Airways, the President took over-plane, pilot, CAB...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Truman v. Pan Am | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...months CAB had been studying the application of eleven U.S. lines for Latin American routes. Finally it decided that four domestic lines should be given Caribbean routes to compete with Pan Am. But the board did not think Pan Am needed any U.S. flag competition on its lucrative Bermuda and South American runs. When CAB's recommendations went to the President he decided that, on the contrary, more competition was needed-and plenty of it. In jigtime he overruled CAB on four important routes. Moreover, he peremptorily told CAB just exactly which U.S. airlines should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Truman v. Pan Am | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

Puzzle for Lawyers. While aviation lawyers wondered if the President had the authority to do what he had done (CAB regulations give him power to approve CAB actions, say nothing about actually designating lines and routes), CAB hastily did exactly what he wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Truman v. Pan Am | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...mine, they stood three deep around the Egypt Café bar; miners' wives paraded into Pollock's Electrical Appliance Co. to order washers and refrigerators. The West Frankfort bank was fairly bursting with miners' deposits. Telephone installations were at an all-time peak and the "42" Cab Co. was doing a record business. Illinois miners had enough money, a United Mine Workers official figured, to stay out six months. From Pennsylvania came the same kind of reports. From Welch, W.Va.: "We're behind you, John, go your full length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Moth & The Flame | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

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