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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RENT-A-PLANE service will be started this fall by Hertz Corp., which expects to have 50 rental air stations doing $2,500,000 business in its first year. At airports throughout U.S., car-rental company will franchise Cessna Aircraft Co. distributors to rent planes to private pilots. Rental for fly-it-yourself four-passenger Cessna plane: $1 an hour plus 15? a mile...
...figures came as timely support for the new air traffic plan drafted by Presidential Adviser Edward P. Curtis, vice president of Eastman Kodak Co. and former Air Force major general. The Curtis report calls for an all-weather, 24-hour control of all planes above a certain altitude, which would, in effect, control every commercial plane. To get the program started, the Administration last month sent to Congress the Curtis proposal for a three-man Airways Modernization Board composed of an impartial chairman and representatives of the Defense and Commerce departments. The technology and much of the equipment are available...
...Utopian belief in man's earthly salvation through socialism and sociology, related to the igth century evolutionary notion that history is a process of perpetual improvement. That era's brilliant, fashionable upper-class leftists-Auden, Ishenvood, Spender et al.-are dismissed by Amis and Co. as playboys on a slumming party. The "new men" have actually been poor, and understandably they smirk when they pick up the memoirs of a posh erstwhile pink like Philip Toynbee (son of A Study of History'> Arnold J.) and read:"It was there, at Castle Howard, that I fell in love...
...most significant quarrel that Amis and Co. have with their literary predecessors is not that they had money but that they had causes. As Novelist John Wain puts it: "It was the last age, consciously and feverishly the last, in which people had the feeling that if they only took the trouble to join something, get a party card, wear a special shirt, organise meetings and bellow slogans, they could influence the course of events. Since 1946 nobody above the Jehovah's Witness level has taken this attitude...
...identifying with the working classes, it is a "mug's game." Nor do Amis and Co. propose to rally round their presumed benefactors, the Socialists, for whose triumph their predecessors fought so hard: "The Welfare State, indeed, is notoriously unpopular with intellectuals. It was all very well to press for higher working-class wages in the old days, but now-why, some of them are actually better off than we are ourselves...