Word: airings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caused by a historic decision of the Civil Aeronautics Board. Last week, CAB gave the two big nonscheduled cargo airlines permission to fly two transcontinental scheduled air-freight routes, the first in the U.S. CAB's certificates will permit them to fly on regular, advertised schedules, thus compete for air freight on equal terms with the regular airlines. At the same time CAB: 1) certificated Florida's U.S. Airlines, Inc. to fly a north-south freight route between the New York and Chicago areas and the southeast; 2) approved a local newspaper-delivery route flown by Texas...
...chances for profit looked good. In three years, air freight has grown from virtually nothing to more than 115 million ton-miles last year. The potential amount of U.S. air freight, said CAB last week, is more than one billion ton-miles per year, or more than eight times as much as all airlines are now hauling. The cargo lines had promised they would develop the business if given the chance. Now it was up to them to make good...
...York City's La Guardia field and neighboring airports one night last week rolled 59 trailer trucks hauling the largest single consignment of air freight in the history of commercial aviation. It took the entire cargo facilities of American Airlines and six other lines to carry the 112 tons. The shipment consisted of razor blades-25 million of them. They were flown to 381 U.S. cities, to appear simultaneously on 150,000 retail counters...
After some months of buildup, the portents had become so numerous and alarming that the Air Force began gathering all the data it could find on each report of "unidentified aerial phenomena" such as flying discs, space ships from Mars and things that go whiz in the air. Last week the National Military Establishment issued a statement on Project Saucer. Spinners of yarns about flying saucers, including a score or so of Air Force pilots, stuck stoutly to their stories. But the Air Force's scientists found no convincing evidence that mysterious aircraft (from Mars, or even from...
Flame & Fight. There had been plenty of reports to keep Project Saucer busy. In January 1948, an object like "an ice cream cone topped with red" was sighted by several observers over Godman Air Force Base, Ft. Knox, Ky. Three fighter planes flew off in pursuit. Captain Thomas F. Mantell chased the object to 20,000 ft., later crashed, probably from lack of oxygen, and died...