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...CAA announced granting Pan Am a new run across the Pacific: from San Francisco (via Los Angeles) 6,540 miles to Auckland, New Zealand, with stops at Honolulu, Canton Island and Noumea in New Caledonia. Pan Am began surveying the New Zealand run in 1935, in 1938 was ready to start mail and express service...
...Labor Overseer Sidney Hillman was still ill. Fulltime U. S. officials who are to share his job (mobilizing trained man power where it is needed) buzzed ahead without him on plans to train 1,000.000 civilians, find immediately needed craftsmen, school 45,000 civilian pilots for a year (through CAA). Hulking Leon Henderson kept his SEC office; he can watch price trends as well from one place as another...
...Army Air Corps (which delivers engines, propellers, etc. by aerial freighter), Grover Loening set out to convince U. S. air lines they should have their own express-freight corporation. He got nowhere until July 1939, when Railway Express Agency, seeking to formalize its monopoly of the business, suddenly asked CAA for a certificate of convenience and necessity as an air carrier. Apprehensive, the air lines protested, were joined by Grover Loening in an able brief on his own hook. Result: Examiner F. A. Law recommended the application be refused...
Last week, while air lines were waiting for CAA's final decision, top-flight air transport men who went to the National Aviation Forum in Washington to meet old friends, hear speeches, were not surprised to find the name of Grover Loening on the list of speakers. Sitting in the Department of Commerce auditorium, they saw toothy Grover Loening square off behind the lectern, lay down his spectacles, and tell them what they were missing...
...rates down, Grover Loening had a plan which he had set forth in bookkeeping detail in his brief to CAA. First step to air-express service, said he, is air-express planes: efficient freight-luggers built without the doodads of passenger craft, thus capable of carrying a bigger payload on the same horsepower. Airline men gasped when he first said that 345 8-ton airplanes could carry all the express now handled by the railroads, gulped when he figured out for them that a fat profit could be made at rates 1½% times rail rates. Urged by Loening...