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...Japan, traffic and transport workers won a sharp, significant victory. More than 5,000 members of their Communist-led union paraded through Tokyo, immediately achieved: 1) wage increases averaging 500%; 2) ousting of "reactionaries" from the company; 3) employe participation in management. Just before this victory, Japanese Reds had gained face because of U.S. concessions to Russia on control of Japan (TIME...
...idea of the airline was Earl Slick's. He had mixed flying lessons with his wildcatting, had been a wartime pilot in the Air Transport Command. Not long after he became a civilian last December, he heard that nine surplus Army Curtiss Commandos were up for sale. In Washington, he walked into RFC's surplus-plane division one day at i p.m., came out at 1:15 owning the planes. The price...
...Kidnapped in 1933, Urschel was held for nine days on a Texas farm till $200,000 was paid for his release. By remembering the precise time a transport plane passed over the farm daily, he was able to locate the farm, help the FBI trap the kidnappers. *A term used by Texans, notorious braggarts about Texas, to describe their opinion of their state. Those who have "demonstrated ability" in such bragging will be feted by Texas Citrus & Vegetable Growers Association in Washington at the first Texas Brag dinner...
...National Security Council). The Army had won President Truman's backing for outright merger with the Air Forces as a third and coequal branch. The Navy recognized that in any case there was virtue in getting together on the lowest level-down where procurement, recruiting, training and transport services overlapped...
...Manhattan's Hotel Lexington, representatives of ten airlines from eight different countries gathered. It was the first meeting of the North Atlantic Conference of the International Air Transport Association. Some of the airmen had traveled over 4,000 miles to attend this long-awaited meeting to fix minimum Atlantic fares. It lasted just five minutes. Reason: the Civil Aeronautics Board had not granted U.S. airlines permission to participate...