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Having flown many thousand miles in Air Transport Command-managed lines, where "customers" were nonpaying, yet courteously treated, my introduction to [a] commercial airline's bid for traffic was a rude awakening...
...evening session. The big clock over the Speaker's chair in the House of Commons was a few ticks short of 9:30. The Government's most extensive socialist measure yet-nationalization of almost all of Britain's privately owned inland transport-was in the bag, and everybody knew...
...amendment. He mustered only 31 of the Opposition (against the Government's 346). But he stuck to his popgun and in the next three hours forced 15 more voting divisions, kept the members trudging to & from the voting lobbies. (It was a trying night for one-legged Transport Minister Alfred Barnes, but he made all 16 round trips on his cork...
...minor incident highlighted a serious problem last week. Liberian airfield workers just could not grasp the U.S. logic in shutting down a nice strategic base like Roberts Field, on the west bulge of Africa. They missed their regular pay. The Army had buttoned up the big Air Transport base at the end of March and left a handful of G.I. guards to hold off the exuberant jungle and its prowlers from the runways and buildings...
...Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia caution her not to go to fascist Spain-simply because the U.S. (which husband Juan Peron is currently wooing) might view the trip dimly? Did not Bramuglia and those other Dutch uncles know about the plans? How she would fly in a special four-motored transport, escorted by two Argentine army planes, to the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha? How Spanish flyers would meet her there and take her to Madrid with full military honors...