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Sedate Bob Ramspeck, headed for a vice-presidency of the Air Transport Association of America, at a reported $25,000 a year, made his point more abruptly. He called congressional salaries "a shame and a disgrace," urged a system of retirement insurance...
When the Army transport James Parker docked at a Manhattan pier last fortnight, nobody on board would talk about the 40 crates in the hold. The War Department was only slightly more talkative: it admitted that the crates contained a priceless museum-load of old masters. The paintings had been brought to the U.S. from destroyed or damaged German museums. Washington's National Gallery of Art had arranged (through its board chairman, Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone) to keep them "in trust for the people of Germany or the other rightful owners...
...some of their planes partly empty. Passengers who want to fly will have to pay higher rates and travel on BOAC's obsolescent Clippers. U.S. airmen hoped that the limitation would be temporary, and would be lifted when the North Atlantic Conference of the International Air Transport Association meets in New York Jan. 8. But the British said nothing about a time limit...
...Changchun, Manchuria's capital, 2) Harbin, Northern Manchuria's rail hub, and 3) Dairen, Manchuria's most important harbor, where the Russians have trade rights. With these three cities, plus the Mukden arsenal and metropolis, the National Government would hold the keys to Manchuria's transport and industry...
...said Britain, must accept the principle that the International Air Transport Association, recently formed by the airlines of some 24 nations, shall fix minimum international fares. Until Pan Am agrees to this principle, it can fly to London only twice a week, even at $375. Pan Am refused to agree to I.A.T.A.'s rule, planned a trick play...