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REFUGEE AIRLIFT is giving nonscheduled airlines biggest boom since Korean war. CAB has issued nonskeds 29 permits for refugee flights, will soon approve 24 more. Every usable overwater craft will be pressed into service. So great is need that asking price for used DC-4s has jumped from $550,000 apiece...
...with that part of himself that fails to come up to his ideal of a strong and capable man. I-5 knows that he has a strong side, a protective side and a side that can weep. Most of us are either I-5s or else I-4s struggling to become Iss. An I-6 would be no problem here, and I-7, the perfect man, doesn't exist...
...have made good with their airlines. Both won their wings in the Navy, later served in the Air Transport Command, where they saw a bright future for peacetime cargo flying. Starting off with two surplus C-54s in 1947, they quickly built up a fleet of twelve DC-4s and a business of more than $10 million flying across the Pacific during the Korean War (TIME, July...
...when the war ended, S. & W. ran into rough weather. In a single year, the line saw its gross plummet nearly 50% from the 1953 peak of $13.6 million. It returned six leased DC-4s, chopped its personnel, and hustled up private air freight, flying everything from European leather goods for the carriage trade to Indian rhesus monkeys for the Salk polio-vaccine program. It bought four new Lockheed Super Constellations to give customers faster service, expanded its service to the point where this year's revenues will top $15 million. Next step: more expansion by buying more long...
...Acting Chairman Chan Gurney. Pan Am had indeed led in passengers for the last two years, but most of its bulge came in 1953, when plane-short Northwest had to shift its Boeing Stratocruisers from the Pacific to domestic and Orient runs and fly DC-4s to Hawaii. In 1954 Northwest made up most of the loss, ran almost neck and neck with Pan Am. Over the entire six-year test period, Northwest was the real leader, having flown 31,038 passengers to Pan Am's 30,700. As for subsidies, Northwest had previously said that it would...