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Thereby a man named Lowell Yerex, a New Zealander who looms large in Central American air transport, realized a long-standing ambition. Two of his companies got CAB temporary operating certificates: British West Indian Airways, which he turned into a ferry for U.S. Army engineers and materials between Miami and Trinidad, and his principal enterprise, TACA, S.A., which covers six of the countries between Mexico and Panama. BWIA was authorized to fly passengers, mail and cargo between Miami and Port-of-Spain, TACA to fly between Miami and San José, Costa Rica...
Died. John Henry Wigmore, 80, author of a legal bible, Treatise on Evidence, dean of Northwestern's Law School from 1901 to 1929; of injuries suffered in a cab collision; in Chicago. Dean Wigmore was one of the designers of World War I's draft act and a co-founder of the Harvard Law Review...
With these grand-scale postwar applications now filed with CAB, Northeast's shrewd president, Samuel Joseph Solomon, said dryly that these two activities, together with its already pending application for service between Boston and New York, are all the company envisages for the present...
...CAB also granted an application-Pan American's three-year-old petition for a New Orleans-Guatemala City route. Pan American will start service within five weeks, will use four-engine, 33-passenger Boeing clippers for the 1,100-mile over-the-Gulf hop. Biggest advantage: U.S. citizens will have their first south-central international airport (other southern ports: Miami, Los Angeles, Fort Worth and Brownsville, Tex.). Biggest disadvantage: cramped facilities at New Orleans, where the largest hangar leaves three feet of Clipper wingtip in the rain...
With a few exceptions like Pan American's New Orleans application, CAB will probably pigeonhole all route petitions for the duration. But they still have significance aplenty-they foreshadow a postwar battle for transportation routes unparalleled since U.S. railroaders fought head-to-head in the roaring...