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...request of the armed forces ("We pitched the textbooks out the window and taught with planes and parts"), turned out 20,000 pilots and 3,500 mechanics. In 1945 he got a CAB certificate, and began flying passengers between Amarillo and Houston. Later, he bought six surplus DC-3s, began using the name Pioneer, and hired onetime Braniff Executive Vice President Robert J. Smith as president to run the line...
...caravan of cars, trucks and house-trailers, and rented a whole floor of the Pan American Hotel. As president of the Honduran division of a Salt Lake City stock company called the "Pan American Mining and Development Co.," Colfelt announced that he had chartered a fleet of DC-3s to haul equipment upcountry, then began setting up drinks for all comers in the hotel bar. One suspicious investor flew down, took one horrified look at the show in Tegucigalpa and hastened back to his fellow suckers in Salt Lake City. Colfelt was last seen in a small boat, heading...
...charged that they had been locked out by their employers, the London Master Printers Association. The association retorted that it had fired the printers for refusing to abolish overtime restrictions. They had been required to do so under a government arbitration decision awarding the men a weekly raise of 3s...
...waged its war in the air against negligible Red opposition- a few propeller-driven Yak 3s, 7s, 9s and 15s, some Ilyushin 10s. This week, the Air Force heard what might prove to be serious news. A number of new-type Russian-made jet fighters, said a MacArthur communique, had been sighted in action over Chongju. The Reds' new plane was described as "smaller than the American F-80, with swept-back wings, a stubby fuselage and blunt nose...
...Korea was a different story. Here the U.S. had a decided edge and was taking regular advantage of it (see above). The Russian planes so far used by the North Koreans have been Yak propeller-driven fighters and Ilyushin assault planes. The planes in use have been Yak-3s and Yak-y-Bs, perhaps some...