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...Senators sat up and took notice; Airman Rickenbacker made the businesslike kind of sense they wanted to hear. Next day, he followed up his free advice with a dramatic and not entirely disinterested proposal. He offered to take over his competitors-National, Delta, Capital, Chicago & Southern, and Colonial Airlines -and handle all their domestic air mail at Eastern's "non-subsidy" rate of 60/ to 65^ per ton mile (v. the five lines' average which he figured at $4.45 last year). *The difference, said Rick, would save the taxpayers $10 million a year...
...because you never notice him." Sir William's World War II work was so secret that he will still not discuss it, before the war he was just as unobtrusive, and influential, in British high finance. Settling down in England after a World War I stint as an airman, he soon had a finger in radio, gramophones, aviation, steel, real estate and construction (he built London's huge sports arena, Earl...
...getting through entirely unjammed; 35% are jammed but still intelligible. Since the news is repeated over & over 24 hours a day, the Russians are undoubtedly still getting much news from the outside world. So far they have not been forbidden to listen to the Voice. As one escaped Russian airman put it: "To listen is not forbidden but it is not recommended...
...stating the case for the Air Force over their naval competitors, he was mistaken. The Air Force's Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg was indeed confident that his airmen could reach almost anywhere with their intercontinental B-36 bombers, starting from U.S. bases. But no responsible airman claimed that the Air Force could win a war without the naval ships and planes to keep command of the seas and an army to finish the job by invasion...
...these requirements can be met, Airman Richardson did not say. The U.S. has no region like the desert of Australia where the British Commonwealth's missile center, Woomera ("Womb of Death" in the aboriginal language), has 1,200 miles of desolation to shoot over...