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...CAB objected that the proposed rates had been set without reference to actual operating costs. They were also much closer to the high rates favored by the British than to the low rates U.S. lines had glowingly promised. In effect, CAB said what most U.S. airmen knew: I.A.T.A.'s cartel-like system of fixing fares would freeze them at a high level...
...present transatlantic rates will remain in effect ($375 from New York to Paris and London. $295 to Lisbon). Next month I.A.T.A. will meet again, try to set rates which can get CAB approval...
...League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Citizen Army. He lived with his mother in a few flea-ridden Dublin slum rooms. When bis sister died, there was no money in the house to bury her. When his brother-in-law went crazy, the clutchers came in a plain, black cab and carried him off to the home for loony paupers at Grangegor-man. He himself had been born with weak eyes, and contracted "a tubercular swelling" on his neck. With his "tattered clothes and broken boots," he looked like "a ragamuffin . . . a shuddering sight for Gaelic gods...
...Even CAB no longer seemed satisfied with the workings of the pact's rate-fixing machinery. The International Air Transport Association had set transatlantic fares at $360, far above the tempting low fares U.S. lines had promised. This revived CAB's earlier fears that I.A.T.A. was but a well-disguised high-fare cartel. Said CAB Chairman L. Welch Pogue: "It seems incredible that people should get together in a fare conference . . . and that nobody should have made a proposal other than the one actually agreed upon...
...CAB does not approve the fares set by I.A.T.A., or if the Senate approves the Commerce Committee findings, then transatlantic air carriers may find themselves back where they started from last summer...