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When an airplane hits another airplane in flight, there are no survivors. This axiom of aeronautic safety has been demonstrated most graphically twice in the past two years: first when 128 people were killed in a collision over the Grand Canyon in June, 1956, and then last month, when an airliner and a jet trainer collided over the Nevada desert...
Commercial airliners, the Airline Pilots Association has disclosed, are involved in an average of four near-collisions every day, and in one quarter of these the planes pass within 100 feet of each other. From 1950 till the Grand Canyon disaster on June 30, 1956, almost seventy collisions involving civil airplanes took place(not including a high military total), but none had previously involved passenger planes. Many experts consider it possible, even likely, that a collision might occur over a large city, where the worst traffic jams are located...
...American Express started to sell package tours on the installment plan with payments ranging from three months up to 20 months. A 15-day tour from Chicago to the Grand Canyon, California, and Las Vegas, Nev.-including fares, meals, lodging and guides-can be bought for $28 down plus payments of $23.79 a month for twelve months. Total cost: $313.48 v. $283 if all paid in advance. American Express expects 2,000 installment travelers to spend $1,000,000 on the plan in 1958, says that its domestic bookings are 10% ahead of last year...
...tidelands oil bill, he won the support of Northerners by astute trades. Example: although Oregon's left-leaning Richard Neuberger had crossed him in a key vote, Johnson got to work the next day to round up votes for Neuberger's special pride, the Hells Canyon Dam, got it passed. Today Neuberger is a Johnson...
...suggestion for a $274 million multipurpose dam at Pleasant Valley instead of at Nez Perce. FPC and many powermen have opposed it because it would be above the Salmon and Imnaha Rivers, thus store much less water than Nez Perce. It would also flood out the lowest Hells Canyon dam that Idaho Power Co. is licensed to build. But Pleasant Valley, under hard study by the Interior Department since last year, would certainly save more fish than Nez Perce, be within range of private financing. The Oregon Water Resources Board has endorsed Seaton's idea. Whatever happened...