Word: crooker
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Congress, too, is pushing the CAB. On February 19, Senator Magnuson, Chairman of both the Senate Commerce Committee and its important Aviation Subcommittee, wrote CAB Chairman John Crooker. Magnuson asked the CAB to retain Youth Fare on "national interest" grounds--for which, conceivably, justification may be found in the 1958 Federal Aviation Act. The Magnuson letter stresses the role of Youth Fare in making possible the broad formal and informal education "so essential in our modern society." Congressman Olsen, in addition, has initiated a national campaign to flood the CAB with letters from students urging retention...
...letter to CAB Chairman John H. Crooker, Olsen asked that the ruling be reviewed and rescinded. A press spokesman for Rep. Olsen said that if the CAB upholds the decision he can introduce legislation overturning the Board's action...
...Uniform Uniforms. Besides lightening their flight schedules, some airlines may have to cancel or at least defer new aircraft orders. John Crooker Jr., chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, is particularly concerned about local feeder lines. Recent jet purchases have enabled these carriers to increase their available seat miles (the number of seats multiplied by the distance flown) by 40% over the past year. However, they have increased passenger traffic by only 27%. Feeder lines, Crocker warns, may have committed themselves to "substantially more equipment than projected traffic warrants...
About then, Fritz swore off wild oats, in 1931 married Ernestine Zwerleine, later a John Frederics millinery model, daughter of a Viennese architect. He also teamed up with Lyricist Earle Crooker, wrote Salute to Spring (1937), which did moderately well in St. Louis but never moved East, and Great Lady (1938), which opened as will Camelot in Broadway's Majestic Theater, and closed after 17 performances. For four years, Fritz wrote almost nothing but sketches and songs for the Lambs Club Gambols, the intramural games of Broadway. Then a friend in Detroit asked him to do a show...