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Actually, the Committee, while using this legalism to attack the pact, was also concerned for commercial reasons: 1) the U.S., which will provide 80% of international air travelers, will receive far less than that share of the transport business, and 2) CAB, which has kept U.S. shipping interests out of airlines, would have to give U.S. landing rights to foreign airlines owned or controlled by competing steamship lines. The Committee skipped over what the U.S. had gained, the commercial use of leased British bases, many of which were built with U.S. funds, such as Bermuda's Kindley Field...
Acting independently of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, which carries out the board's decisions, the CAB operates under the Civil Aeronautics Authority a legal subdivision of the Department of Commerce, as the principal regulator, investigator, and adjudicator of our commercial airlines...
Friendly, gregarious Harry Truman had his fun during his half-week trip to Missouri with Winston Churchill. Their Baltimore & Ohio private train was out of Washington less than an hour when the President walked its length, shaking hands with reporters, cameramen, secret service men, crewmen. Up in the cab of the diesel engine he delighted himself and cameramen by pulling on a pair of cotton work gloves and sitting at the controls while the long, blue train rumbled through the West Virginia hills...
...does CAB favor applications from untried companies. Since its creation in 1938, CAB has granted only one short feeder route to a new line...
Actually the swarm of new airlines has dimmed the future of all unscheduled carriers. They can now fly without CAB permission. But so many have started up that CAB will probably bring them under strict regulation to prevent cutthroat competition and keep flying as safe as it is. If that happens, many a vet line will have to fold its wings...