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...CAB technicians followed Rod Sullivan's story to the end. They examined the control cables and machinery, found everything intact and in good order except for one small part. In exhaustive flight tests in Long Island Sound, with Rod Sullivan aboard, they proved that, even if that part had failed before the crash, the plane would have been perfectly safe...
Ever since Pearl Harbor, the Civil Aeronautics Board has resolutely looked the other way almost every time a U.S. airline asked for permission to fly new routes below the Rio Grande. Last week it turned a dizzy somersault. CAB now begged all comers to apply for flights to Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean...
...CAB's meek announcement said that applications need not specify exact routes to be considered; that in any case they should "include a general provision which will permit [them] to be construed as [good] for any new route which the Board may find to be required. . . ." Airmen thanked Good Neighbor grumbling for this sudden flipflop, figured that it must also mean that all the talk about more equipment for them was finally about to pay off in planes instead of promises...
...which has compelled U.S. farmers to look for manpower substitutes, is mothering some amazing new farm machines. So says FORTUNE for September in a survey of new farm machinery that may revolutionize U.S. postwar agriculture. Some of FORTUNE'S findings: > An enclosed tractor cab with self-starter, heater, cigar lighter, windshield wiper and radio. The manufacturer now plans to air-condition the cab, so that a farmer may "spread manure on frozen January fields while listening to the Aladdin Lamp program in a cab set at a steady 72°, or ride through 130° Kansas heat without raising...
...Polo Grounds last week, a three-ring baseball circus sponsored by the New York Journal-American climaxed a three-month War Bond drive and pitched a whopping $800,000,000 into the U.S. Treasury. From Broadway and Hollywood came Irving Berlin, Jimmy Cagney, Ethel Merman, Cab Galloway, Carole Landis to entertain the bond-buying fans; later a crack Army team played a combination of Dodger-Giant-Yankee favorites (chosen by a summer-long tabulation of individual "performance points" and popularity votes cast by fans, as part-of the war's most elaborate bond-raising scheme...