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...shall fly them, sent its recommendations to President Truman. He reportedly approved, but withheld an announcement, patiently waiting for the committee to make up its mind. Last week, Committee Chairman Josiah William Bailey, dis gusted with his poky legislators, said he would urge President Truman to wait no longer. CAB reportedly recommended...
...week's end, the President still held up final approval of CAB's work. One reason: the Senate committee, which has already voted down the "chosen instrument" policy of Pan Am's Juan Trippe, intended to vote on a substitute bill to do virtually the same thing-i.e., make Pan Am the chosen instrument by barring domestic lines from international routes. It was expected that that bill would also be defeated. But if there is any more delay, most airmen expect the President to act. It would be high time...
...CAB is about to hand American one of the plums which it has long sought: permission to buy American Export Airlines. At a dinner last week for Kemp and Smith, C.R. told his employes: "We are all proud of the 86 planes we have and we will be prouder of the 100 planes we will soon have. But any employe who can't see the day when we will have 1,000 planes had better look for a job somewhere else...
...President started from Blair House at 8:30 a.m., followed by Secret Service men and reporters, a tiny old lady stepped from a knot of onlookers, said: "I just wanted to shake hands." The President shook hands. And once, when traffic halted to let the President pass, a cab driver yelled: "Good luck, Harry!" Harry Truman grinned and waved...
Gift of Tongues. Everywhere waiters, clerks and plain citizens who could speak foreign languages were suddenly popular. The Yellow Cab company announced that it had 70 drivers capable of conversing in alien tongues, including Assyrian. Correspondents would be offered every help in the way of workrooms, telegraph service, reference material-even a volunteer corps of ex-newspapermen ready and anxious to substitute as rewrite men for correspondents bowled over by the bottle. The city was prepared to offer them plenty of entertainment-cocktail parties, ferry and airplane rides, press cards good for squaring minor infractions...