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...Hawaiian Airlines (88% owned by Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co.) wants a 2,600-mile run between Hawaii and Los Angeles, would fly passengers, mail and express. CAB has already refused to let Matson Navigation and Inter-Island join with Pan American on this route. Reason: Such control of an airline would open the way for a monopoly...
...statuesque beauty (an armless Venus) and struck up a conversation with her. Repairing briefly to the Sherry-Netherland bar, he emerged, gathered another crowd by bawling the headlines of a newspaper, spied a pretty girl, promptly proposed, was promptly turned down. When the police arrived, he grabbed a cab...
Last week the Civil Aeronautics Board approved a new contract between Railway Express and twelve major airlines. CAB revised two clauses in earlier contracts to which Arnold had taken exception 1) that air express rates must be at least double rail express rates for identical routes; 2) that every pound of air express must be handled through Railway Express...
...Aeronautical Sciences, Pilot Allen sat himself down to a codification of test-pilot procedure. Object: to standardize testing, make it result in the same sound, understandable conclusions no matter what pilot is at the controls. The result: a test pilot's bible. Said Edward Pearson Warner of CAB, onetime professor in M.I.T.'s Department of Aeronautical Engineering: "More than anybody else, Eddie has made it possible for the performance of aircraft to be determined accurately and scientifically...
...headlines instead of the sound doctrines expounded and the grave warnings sounded. 'Glamorous' was the word her listeners thought of: not 'How damn true.' " Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. informed the House Foreign Affairs Committee that a committee of Army, Navy and CAB bigwigs had been studying the problem for months. Said he: American interests are being safeguarded...