Word: caa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Representing educational programs and interests of various government bureaus will be Edgar Fuller of the CAA, Walter D. Cocking of the OPA, and Kenneth L. Heaton...
...almost a decade. With no good airports and few passengers, capital needs were so great that the company was forced to raise $500,000 extra cash with a stock offering in 1941. But one month before Pearl Harbor President Sam Solomon made two prophetic moves: 1) he petitioned CAA to start a postgraduate pilot-training school; 2) he asked CAB for a route extension from Moncton to Newfoundland. Came Pearl Harbor, and Northeast had a head start on most other U.S. airlines. The Army promptly gave it air cargo routes across the Atlantic to Scotland, tossed in a fat pilot...
...Ferry Command pilots who hop on & off the airlines' beam without reporting positions to traffic controls. One pilot reported last week he had to pull up the nose so fast to avoid hitting an army plane that he almost threw his passengers through the floor. The Army and CAA immediately launched an investigation: this was one time when there must be abundant, clear-cut evidence...
...Corps is jointly sponsored by WMC, Army, Navy, CAA, the U.S. Office of Education Wartime Commission. But the main push came from the high schools themselves - for months they have urged such a scheme upon the Office of Education. Many a high school has already started its own unofficial victory corps. In Sandy Spring, Md., for example, the principal tore up his old curriculum, got his youngsters busy drilling, exercising, apple picking, bandage rolling, taking care of working mothers' children, doing the school's janitor work, studying flying...
This training situation is somewhat on the mend. At scores of civilian fields, a new supplemental pilot program was under way this week, managed by CAA...