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When Newfoundland became Canada's tenth province 2½^ months ago, U.S. airlines feared that things would be changed at Newfoundland's Gander airport. There, under the "Bermuda Agreement" with Great Britain (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946), the airlines had been able to: 1) refuel for their transatlantic flights, and 2) pick up and discharge passengers (traffic rights). The agreement ended when Newfoundland joined the Dominion, since Canada had never granted traffic privileges to U.S. lines. Thus she had a strong card to play for more air rights from...
Canada played her card well: she announced that traffic rights at Gander would be withdrawn June 30, but let it be understood that the status quo might be maintained if the U.S. came across with some new concessions. Last week, after a fortnight's negotiations, the U.S. State Department came across. Canada got: ¶ A new Montreal-New York route for the government-owned Trans-Canada Airlines, thus letting T.C.A. tap the richest U.S. traffic center and providing the first competition for Colonial Airlines on Colonial's most lucrative route. ¶ Traffic rights at Tampa and St. Petersburg...
...plane parts manufacturer. But all over the world, U.S. airmen know Gilfillan's gadget-the G.C.A. (ground-controlled approach) equipment for blind landings. At Berlin's Tempelhof Airdrome, two of Gilfillan's G.C.A. units are bringing in Allied transports through all kinds of weather. At Gander, Newfoundland, G.C.A. is guiding in U.S. Air Force and commercial planes. At New York's La Guardia Field, Chicago's Municipal Airport, and Washington's National Airport, G.C.A. approaches are routine in thick weather...
Blue Fire. At Gander (1,750 miles) he had to land with the help of G.C.A. At Paris (4,370 miles), the enthusiastic French pinned on him a medal for "physical endurance." At Karachi (8,745 miles), he found that "the clouds were in the palm trees," lost precious time working a radio letdown procedure. Customs officials pestered him. "They wanted me to sign a thousand papers. I was taxiing out, and the customs man ran after me. I just tossed him a fountain...
Leverett--cf, Holober; ss, Melahn; lb, Heelzer; lf, Eder; p, Cameron; c, Thorn; 3b, Palmer; 2b, Lenherr; rf, Hollings-head. Lowell--c, Richardson; p. Bonner, Frisch; lb, Gardner; 2b, Silver; 3b, Guild; ss, Broad; lf, Gander, Gardiner; cf, Lane, Smith; rf, Blount...