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The Sixes Take Off. Douglas DC-6s, grounded by fires last November (TIME, Nov. 24), were test flown to see if the four major changes in the plane had eliminated the fire bugs. So far, the grounding has cost the three biggest domestic users of sixes (United, American and National...
For more than a week National Airlines' planes were grounded; their 145 pilots and co-pilots were out on strike. Members of the A.F.L. Air Lines Pilots Association, they had walked out because of "concern over air safety" after A.F.L. mechanics and office workers had struck for more pay...
But hard-bitten George T. Baker, National's president, did not intend to keep his planes grounded, strike or not. He promptly fired his pilots for quitting, and filed notice that he would sue A.L.P.A. for $5,000,000 for "libel and slander." Last week he started replacing the...
¶In Labrador, a team of dog paratroopers made a practice jump on orders of U.S. Colonel Paul A. Zartman, Goose Bay airbase commandant. Zartman's idea: harnessed to a dogsled (which can also be parachuted), dogs can haul human chutists on difficult Arctic rescue missions. The tests proved...
Strong Men. The only trouble with this was that the strong men were not very strong. Nor did they want to take over. Nor, if they had, would it have been Fascism. They did not think it was necessary for the commanding officer to be a Henry Wallace. They wanted...