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...third time in 2½ months that a plane had plummeted on Elizabeth, and the Port of New York Authority, fearing riots, shut the $52 million Newark airport up tight within three hours...
...pride. Even people who didn't care to ride in planes enjoyed watching them land and reflecting that their city had not been bypassed by the air age. Greater New York was no exception; it was as proud of those raucous, air-age beehives, La Guardia, Idlewild and Newark Airports, as of the sight of the Queen Mary sliding majestically up the Hudson...
Elizabeth civic leaders demanded that the airport be closed permanently. Real-estate values in the city dropped. Newark flights were switched to the other New York fields last week, increasing traffic pressure at La Guardia to a point where planes were landing and taking off every two minutes and similarly heightening activity at Idlewild. This moved nearby residents of Jackson Heights and Jamaica to a wave of protest that almost matched Elizabeth's. The subject became conversational topic A in a dozen other cities throughout the nation...
...whitecollar" strike in U.S. labor history. The strikers, whose work included selling and collecting premiums on industrial policies (i.e., insurance paid for in small weekly or monthly installments), complained of overwork and underpay. During the strike, they threw as many as 1,000 pickets around the company's Newark (N.J.) headquarters...
...stewardess was the only survivor of the crew of four. Amazingly, 36 of the 59 passengers got out alive. Four residents of the apartment house were killed. The Port of New York Authority closed down Newark Airport, one of the nation's busiest and best, to consider what fate and mechanical failures had done...