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...start Mayor La Guardia gathered together 250 leading citizens as a reception committee. Down the harbor boats were beflagged and the sirens made their music. Overhead Ruth Nichols . . . roared in her plane scattering roses . . . Along Lower Broadway . . . [the street] was snowbound with ticker tape ... At the City Hall the proceedings were broadcast, and the vibrant voice of the new General, pleading and purposeful, claimed...
...remained slow; in three days the port grossed a total of $13.53 from aircraft operations. One reason for the lack of planes was a squabble over fees between the major U.S. airlines and the Port of New York Authority, which runs Idlewild and the two other major fields (La Guardia and Newark Airports) in the New York area...
Showdown. New York City's new field is still short of ground facilities (it has only one makeshift administration building and two hangars), so the Authority did no more than try to contain the airlines' rebellion. It canceled the operating permits at La Guardia of such foreign lines as Peruvian International Airways, Scandinavian Airlines system, K.L.M. (Royal Dutch Airlines), Linea Aeropostal Venezolana, Air France and Sabena (Belgian Airlines), in effect forcing them to accept its invitation to move to Idlewild. Domestic airlines which had their eyes on New Jersey's Teterboro Air Terminal (20 minutes from Manhattan...
With its flanks (and the city's $80,000,000 investment) thus protected, the Authority went ahead with plans to make Idlewild the hub of the air world. Under the Authority's regional scheme, Idlewild will handle transatlantic traffic, La Guardia short domestic hauls, and Newark Airport transcontinental flights. Idlewild will be the showpiece...
...nine-day celebration, the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard will demonstrate their latest aircraft. For the city the celebration will hold a broader significance. A field capable of moving 1,000 flights a day comes close to the commercial air supremacy predicted by Fiorello H. La Guardia when he called for the "best damn airport in the world...