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Brazil. The 50,000 U.S. troops and civilians who helped garrison Brazil during the war are gone. So are the air personnel who once made Natal the world's biggest air transport base. But overalled technicians and some military personnel still keep the Brazilian air bases in good running order...
...good enough. Energetic Jennie Lee, his dark-haired wife, is a Tribune director, and many a friendly tea at their house could pass for an editorial conference. Other directors: bright, up-&-climbing Michael Foot, leftish M.P., and Patricia Strauss, wife of another founder who is now under secretary of transport...
...born airplane business. So last October, Reconstruction Minister Clarence D. Howe began looking around for someone to take over the big Canadair plant, near Montreal, which was operated for the Government during the war by Canadian Vickers Ltd. Howe wanted the plant to go on making the North Star transport, a modified Douglas DC-4, thus 1) keep 7,500 workers in their jobs and 2) preserve the nucleus of an air industry. He could not find a well-heeled Canadian willing to do the job. But last week he found an American corporation: the Electric Boat Co. of Manhattan...
...rising expenses and falling traffic, thought that rates must go up before long. This would be a doubtful solution of their troubles. Higher rates would probably mean even fewer passengers on planes now flying with many empty seats. Said a Standard & Poor's analysis of near-future air transport earnings: "Drab...
...T.W.A. pilot for nine years, Thornburg entered the Navy in 1940, was an operations officer for the Naval Air Transport Service for the Caribbean and South America. When he got out of the Navy in 1946, he joined Waterman Airlines. With six planes - two DC-4s and four DC-3s - he has operated a nonscheduled service to Puerto Rico, Central America, England, Germany and South Africa, an intrastate line between six Alabama cities...