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Last week fast-moving ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman made a fast trip to Europe to try to stop the dismantlement and removal-for reparations-of industrial plants in Western Germany. Eastbound, he rode on the presidential plane with Secretary of State Marshall. ("It was," said Hoffman, "the highest-level hitchhike in history.") Next day he conferred with sprightly Foreign Minister Schuman in Paris; the next, with tired, grumpy Foreign Minister Bevin in London; and a day and a half later, he was back in Washington, holding a press conference. He was natty in a dark blue suit but he needed...
That was the first news American Overseas got that its 173 captains and copilots had walked out, grounding all the 18 planes on its international routes. As the day wore on, American found space on rival lines for 56 passengers on the relatively light eastbound run. But 130 others waited vainly at European airports, unable to find space on the crowded westbound flights of other lines. (By week's end A.O.A.'s European backlog was close...
Traffic chaos around Harvard Square claimed another victim Saturday night when Henry M. Stevens, Jr. '50 was knocked to the ground by an eastbound car while crossing Massachusetts Avenue at Holyoke Street...
...platform of Dugald station, a flag stop 14 miles east of Winnipeg, passengers from the Canadian National's crack transcontinental No. 4 stretched their legs. A bright moon shone on stocks of wheat in nearby fields. In eastbound No. 4's cab, Engineer J. R. Gibson was impatient to get going, for he was behind schedule. But he had to wait for a westbound special. It was 10:45 p.m., near the end of a peaceful Labor...
...might yet run into heavy weather of a different sort. On her first trip, she had carried almost a full complement of passengers but only 887 tons of freight -13% of her capacity. And with the peak of the summer tourist season past, there was a noticeable drop in eastbound passengers. For the first time since the war, there were vacant bookings even on the Europe-bound Queens...