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...civil airlines, which last year got $85 million worth of business from MATS. (The total military business with the airlines last year, including movements of military people under travel orders, came to a handsome $235 million.) The lines are out to get even more of the Government's airtransport business. Congress has long sided with the airlines, ignored the steady decline of MATS; e.g., last year the House gunned down a MATS request for ten DC-8 jets costing $66 million...
...from Greece and Crete. Motor-driven lighters, laden with supplies, hugged the coast in Rommel's immediate rear, supplementing the truck convoys on land. Bombings had impeded, but by no means broken up, this front-line supply system. Nor had Allied air attack smashed the Luftwaffe's airtransport line from Crete to the African battlefront...
Last year, pudgy little Silliman Evans-a onetime Texas reporter, onetime airtransport executive, onetime 4th Assistant Postmaster General, publisher of the Tennessean since 1937-thought that he would like to meet some of his three-star letter writers. So he gave a banquet for them. At the old Hermitage Hotel last week Evans welcomed them to the second annual Three-Star letter writers' dinner, which he called "a happy evening of disagreement." Said Publisher Evans: "You are the brain trust of the Tennessean...
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