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...thought he could speed things up. He held that it should not take months-as it often has-for CAB to make up its mind. Last week he got a chance to prove it. Up before CAB came one of the airlines' bitterest squabbles-the fight between Braniff Airways, Inc. and Pan American Airways Corp. for business in Latin America (TIME...
...first DC-6s will take to the air again this week. Douglas Aircraft Co. said it had caught the bugs that had caused two plane fires (and the death of 52) last fall and grounded the planes. American Airlines will resume its DC-6 transcontinental flights; United, National, Braniff, Panagra and Sabena will begin to put their planes in service soon afterwards...
Passengers who had waited up to three weeks for seats on both Braniff and C.M.A., except during the short off-season slack, would question this statement. Tom Braniff questioned it immediately. Said he: "The order of the minister ... is merely one of a long series of actions unfriendly to Aerovias Braniff, but showing partiality to Pan American Airways and its Mexican subsidiary...
...Braniff officials in Mexico City managed to get a temporary injunction against enforcement of the Government order. But airport guards (commanded by a nephew of the chief civil aviation official in the Ministry of Communications) ignored the injunction...
...Even if Braniff cannot make his injunction stick, his cause is not lost. The new national administration which takes office Dec. 1 may reconsider Braniff's application. One thing which will not hurt Braniff's case: in a recent reorganization, Aerovias Braniff sold 51% of its stock to Mexican nationals...