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...achieve even 120 wings, the Air Force would have to skeletonize transport and tactical units and cut its long-range assault outfit, the atom-bomb-carrying Strategic Air Command, from 57 to 52 wings. It would also have to supplement current funds with "holdover" money appropriated during the Truman Administration. After 1956. the holdover Truman money will be gone. Then, unless its budget has been increased again in the meantime, the Air Force will have to trim down to 79 wings, about three-quarters of its present strength (103 wings...
Four new developments, including an offer of assistance from the Transport Workers Union of the CIO, occurred at strike-bound Yale over the weekend. Last night negotiations between the university and the union were still deadlocked...
Michael J. Quill, president of the Transport Workers Union of America, offered "all our support" to the independent Federation of Yale University Employees Friday night, but the Yale union declined "at this time...
...Force goal of 143 wings by January 1956 will be reduced to 115 wings. Transport and tactical wings (which furnish support to the Army) will be skeletonized in order to keep Strategic Air Command and U.S. defense wings at present strength...
...overseas carriers, who must com pete with state-subsidized airlines, may be forced to buy jets for competitive reasons of prestige, said Smith. But the domestic industry will not be likely to adopt a plane that cannot earn its keep. Actually, he said, the next major step in U.S. transport will be to turboprop planes, which use the jet blast to turn propellers. Since the armed forces are now paying for development of several turboprop transports, Smith said, "there should be available within a few years turboprop power plants suitable in size and power output for some of the larger...