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Monro was on safer ground in his speech-making than in his advertising. The latter placed him in a class with many small operators wildly staking out claims for routes to Moscow, to Singapore, to Calcutta; for helicopter networks (one filed with CAB by an 18-year-old high-school boy), and other ventures that are no longer impossible but are still no more than dreams...
...CAB will not act upon any of these applications until the war is won. In the meantime the big domestic operators (Transcontinental & Western, Eastern Air, American Air and United Air) are piling up actual transoceanic experience flying military routes around the world. Some day they will be making a few applications of their...
...there was a joker after all: up to now KLM, TACA and BWIA had been doing business out of Miami on special charter arrangements. Now they are subject to the same priorities setup as Pan Am, the same CAB regulations...
Washington buzzed last week with whispers about the significance of CAB's action. Rumors were: the State Department wanted to reinforce its Good Neighbor policy; the President wanted to bring Pan Am to heel; the Army likewise; the British sought a foothold in the Caribbean. Most widely heard rumor: CAB had wanted to retreat to its former position, grant no certificates to foreign companies until the entire U.S. foreign air policy had been formulated, but it was summoned into executive session, and persuaded to take action by the State Department's Adolf A. Berle...
...CAB carefully guarded its action, saying that it was no precedent for permanent policy...