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When Trust Buster Thurman Arnold last fall fixed a glittering eye on the railroads, he charged that they, through the Railway Express Agency Inc., were controlling and hindering the development of air express on U.S. airlines...
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...
Most important result is that airlines and shippers can now handle cargoes without help from Railway Express when convenient. In return for giving up its monopoly, Railway Express gained an important concession: it may, subject to Government approval, set up in the air express business itself with its own cargo planes...
Southeast of Rzhev other Russian columns captured Gzhatsk, the German position nearest (125 miles) to Moscow, and converged on the railway-junction town of Vyazma. Its fall would enable all the Red armies on the Central Front to combine for a drive toward Smolensk. The whole German position in central Russia was crumbling away...
West of Kursk, where the snow was still deep, the Russians still pushed ahead. One column drove to within 25 miles of the Bryansk-Kiev railway, which links the German armies in the Ukraine with those on the northern front. If this drive between the fronts succeeds in cutting that line, the Russians will have made it less easy for the Germans to shift forces laterally from south to north. That would hamper the Germans in their effort to counterattack eventually in the north as they did last week in the south...