Word: caa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Should mothers fly planes? Yes, they may, says the Civil Aeronautics Authority (all five of whom are fathers). Should expectant mothers do likewise ? Certainly not, says the CAA. This typically masculine decision got very much in the hair of blue-eyed Mrs. Betty Huyler Gillies, Long Island society matron and transport pilot. Last week she sent a message to CAA: lift that...
...CAA straightway sent for help, got other doctors to testify that an expectant mother is subject to fainting spells, nausea. No law was required to cover that possibility, scoffed a Ninety-Nines doctor. A nau seated woman just would not get in a plane, any more than a nauseated...
Heads buzzing with these contrary medi cal opinions, the CAA fathers took the delicate question under advisement...
...Bankers Lehman Bros.-has a partner, Robert Lehman, on Pan Am's board. What makes this interesting to flying men is that Lehman Bros, owns the largest single interest (38.7%) in American Export (steamship) Lines, which controls American Export Airlines. And American Export Airlines is currently after a CAA authorization to compete with Pan Am on the Atlantic...
Today Victor Emanuel is busy with "the Aviation Corp. situation," no longer rides to hounds, likes to talk of the Wordsworthiana collection with which he endowed Cornell. He does not like to talk of his plans for simplifying ATCO (or AVCO), on which CAA has long been casting a critical eye. "But," says he, "I think simplification is the only answer...