Word: caa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fall Pan Am set out as an intervener before CAA to block American Export from getting a certificate of convenience and necessity. Chief contentions: that Export was not financially equipped for ocean trailblazing, that its personnel was inadequate, that on air lanes later to be invaded by French and British lines its competition would be wasteful and costly to U. S. aviation...
...fourth (and last) proposal to reorganize and consolidate Federal bureaus. Major shifts: Weather Bureau from Agriculture Department to Commerce Department; Food & Drug Administration from Agriculture to Paul McNutt's Federal Security Agency; the hitherto independent Civil Aeronautics Authority to the Commerce Department. Major balk: against hobbling CAA and abolishing its Air Safety Board...
...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 fashion for Braniff. Last week Braniff Airways offered the public 150,000 shares of common stock at $10 a share. A third was sold from the personal holdings of Tom Braniff...
...NOTAM" (Notice to Airmen), they rapped out. "Heartiest congratulations to all . . . an entire year of air line safety . . . one of the outstanding achievements in the history of transportation. (Signed) Robert Hinckley, Chairman CAA. . . ." To 208 green-and-red-lit air liners then droning their way across the U. S.'s 35,900 miles of scheduled airways the message was relayed by radio. At breakfast after dawn passengers had copies, countersigned by their pilots, on their breakfast trays...
...crashing a Civil Aeronautics Authority- plane near Baltimore, Md., CAA Engineer Chris M. Lample will be tried by a colleague, may lose his commercial pilot's license...