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...Civil Aeronautics Board examiners recommended that United Air Lines, second biggest U.S. domestic line, be given a route from the co-terminals of San Francisco and Los Angeles to Hawaii. When & if CAB finally grants the route, United will fly two round trips a day with 50-passenger DC-6s...
...planes will be of two types: 44-passenger DC-45, with a top speed of 280 m.p.h., and so-passenger DC-6s, with a top speed of 335 m.p.h. American Airlines will get 55 planes, Panagra three and United 35. Within a week, United plans to contract for another 15 from Douglas. Similarly, Eastern Airlines is now mulling over an order for Douglas. The airlines know that the new planes will make hash of present schedules. The transcontinental time will go down from 18 hours to 8 hours 30 minutes...
...famed Army pilot told his superiors after a fighting tour that "if you have got a hundred AT-6s [advanced trainers] you are a hell of a lot better off than if you have only twelve P-38s [Lightnings]. . . . We found that when we got into the low numbers we took a beating." Many another fighter pilot reported that when his flight had as much as a two-plane superiority. over the enemy his advantage was disproportionately...
Last week the sometimes gloomy subject of the postwar world got a laugh at last. Out of Britain came the most amusing satire of World War II. Called The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of the Better World (Faber & Faber, 6s.), it is a breezy but atrabilious burlesque at the expense of postwar plan ners. Author: Britain's bearded, ebullient Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, who in the last ten years has espoused pacifism, Mosleyism, polygamy, socialism, appeasement, Christianity, spiritualism, hedonism. He has also written some earnest, reputable books of philosophy, become one of the most popular members...
...tutors to address a meeting of all the Freshmen in which they advise their pupils what to do and what not to do. They are told to wear cap and gown in the streets after dark; failing this, and supposing the proctors catch them, they pay a fine of 6s 8d (a third of a pound). They are also advised, not in so many words, to avoid meeting the proctors when or if in the company of notorious women of the town...