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...rich, postwar plum of passengers and freight traffic across the North Atlantic to Europe, American Airlines, biggest U.S. domestic line, last week reached out a powerful hand. American filed its application with CAB for two North Atlantic routes: 1) from New York and Boston to London, 2) from Chicago and Detroit to London...
...this heinous offense to the shades of Holmes† the writer (who turned out to be Professor Moriarty) was fired. He made a successful escape from the office, jumped in a passing hansom cab, and rumbled off over the wet cobblestones into...
...last May, with more Caribbean air routes vitally needed, CAB relented, gave K.L.M. and four other lines (all small, all foreign) permission to land at Miami.* Big K.L.M., with all its other regular flights canceled by war in Europe and the Far East, was first to rush in with alternate flights via Jamaica and Haiti...
...Buck" Medearis, manager of a laundry-and many of the nurses. Once when the Evac was stuck on a siding waiting to move nearer the front, the engineer of a train going the other way called: "Anyone from Charlotte, N.C.?" The answering chorus nearly knocked him out of his cab...
Handsome, hard-working CAB Chairman Lloyd Welch Pogue took a run over these questions last week, then dropped bombs all over air monopoly. Cried Pogue, at a Denver air meeting: "Let us suppose that all of the air transportation of the U.S. had been developed by one company only. Logically, it can be proven in almost any field that monopoly could have been cheaper, that it could have avoided duplication of facilities, could have afforded the investor greater security by taking fewer risks, and could have established stability as its cardinal virtue...