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Hero Youree was sentenced to be cashiered as an example to youngster airmen who are tempted to reckless flying. He was convicted at his station at the Ardmore, Okla. Army airfield of flying too close to a Braniff airliner and scaring the daylights out of its 21 passengers...
...Stockholders of Braniff Airways, Inc., now the fifth largest U.S. domestic airline (in passenger miles flown), authorized an increase in common stock from 400,000 shares of $2.50 par value to 1.500,000. The new capital (estimated at $5,000,000 at the offering price of $12.75) is to be used to finance projected domestic expansion and postwar global flying...
...this will change to a worldwide air-commuting service far bigger than anything air-minded fanatics expected to see before 1950. Thus American and T.W.A. will fly to London at least 24 times every day; United and Pan Am will wing to Australia and India 20-30 times weekly; Braniff, Eastern and Panagra will zip to Central and South America almost as often as crack trains cross...
...auspicious was the prelude to the year-without-a-death. Braniff Airways (Chicago-Brownsville. Tex.), which for seven years had not had a passenger fatality, had just been awarded a certificate of Special Commendation by the National Safety Council when a Braniff plane crashed with a dead engine near Oklahoma City, killing seven passengers and a stewardess. A few days later, when stout, middle-aged Tom E. Braniff, president of the line, was receiving the certificate in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel. CAA inspectors were probing through the blackened wreckage of the crash. The year ended in far less embarrassing...
Last March 26 a Braniff Airways Chicago-Dallas airliner cracked up near Oklahoma City's airport on a night takeoff, killing seven passengers and the stewardess. Since then no U. S. airline has suffered a passenger fatality. With five weeks to go for the first year of perfect operations, the National Safety Council made its fourth annual air-safety awards last week in Manhattan...