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...scramble for postwar interstate air routes began last week in Denver. A score of Westerners, loaded with maps, plans, briefs and economic charts, appeared before a territorial Civil Aeronautics Board hearing. Each stood ready to prove that CAB should give him a certificate to operate a local "feeder" airline, to pick up back-country passengers and deliver them to the big airports where the transcontinental airliners stop, or to save them travel-time by hopping them for short distances...
...Feeder-line operation is an undeveloped field in the U.S. airline business. To keep it under control CAB wants to license only as many routes as the traffic will bear. In Colorado CAB must decide between applicants representing every shade of free enterprise, from well-heeled air lines to weathery, leathery extrovert ad venturers with shoestring capital. If licenses were granted to all, the West would be cobwebbed with airlines covering 190 cities...
Hard Coal. The heater designed by Anthracite Industries, Inc. (not yet tested in a house) is a steel pipe 18 inches long and four to six inches in diameter (four inches for a four-room house, six inches for eight rooms). It has a feeder which pushes coal in at one end and ashes out at the other, a water jacket, a small pump which circulates the heated water rapidly to radiators. (The unit can also be adapted to hot air or steam.) In its tiny fire bed, coal burns much faster than in" previous furnaces, but so efficiently that...
Explained Major Kenneth H. Donnelly, postal officer of the Sixth Service Command: lipstick smears when it passes through V-mail photographic equipment, ruins the letter that bears it, and others that follow. The automatic feeder must be stopped and cleaned after every passing of "the scourge...
...most destructive floods in U.S. history devastated parts of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Many engineers and soil conservationists now believe that the attempt to control the Mississippi and tributaries by big dams is futile. They favor stopping floods at their source by means of many small catch basins in the feeder streams. Because the Jackson model includes all the sources of the Mississippi instead of only the lower part of the Valley, the Army's engineers hope it will point the way to more effective flood control...