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Last week, as reports drifted down out of the inaccessible mountain coves that at least a dozen persons had already starved to death, and a dangerous famine was imminent, three Indian air force transports and two Indian airlines cargo planes began airdropping 40 tons of rice daily. Mizo Hills Christians in their little palm-thatched village churches, and animists who still worship nature deities, offered concerted prayers that when the April rains turn the brown hills to emerald green, the bamboo will not bear its evil blossoms again...
...commercial airlines, with a big assist from Oklahoma's Democratic Senator A. S. ("Mike") Monroney, last week won their long battle to force the Military Air Transport Service to stop competing for passengers and cargo. In the future, MATS will function only as a "hard core" carrier transporting troops, weapons and missiles for the armed forces. This policy shift will force MATS to surrender the bulk of its military and VIP Government passenger and freight business to the private airlines, which will amount to an estimated $100 million a year...
...getting MATS out of the hair of the private airlines, Monroney figured Congress will re-equip it, okay development of a new U.S. cargo plane jointly sponsored by the Government and private airframe manufacturers. Says he: "I don't care whether it's pure jet or turbine propeller. In the kind of brush war businesses that may be ahead, we want a large capacity aircraft that will operate in and out of short fields." Such a cargo plane would be equally useful to commercial carriers. But Congress would not okay appropriations for such a plane until MATS...
...there a man in the magazine or newspaper world who is constitutionally capable of writing a diving story without dragging in "silver and jewels"? Or who can resist employing the old, shameful deceit concerning the value of sunken cargo by citing its insured or market value at the date when it was loaded aboard the ship-new and being awaited by some purchaser whose plans and profits revolved around it? What would be today's value of papermaking machinery made in 1927, valued then at $1,500,-ooo? What would its original consignee give for it, delivered now, even...
While jet-powered 1959 ranked as U.S. commercial aviation's best year in terms of technological advance, it went down as the worst in terms of safety. A record 294 passengers and crew members were killed in nine fatal crashes of scheduled U.S. passenger planes last year. Counting cargo, nonscheduled and training flights, there were 18 fatal accidents, with 329 deaths. On scheduled flights, the fatality rate jumped from .38 per 100 million passenger miles in 1958 to .73 in 1959, highest since 1952. The only bright note was that scheduled pure jets had no fatal mishaps (but there...