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...York reacted with fright and anger. Ever since Newark Airport was closed last Feb. 11, as the result of three crashes which killed a total of 119 people, Idlewild and La Guardia Airports had been forced to handle all air traffic for greater New York. At week's end, some New Yorkers began demanding that Idlewild and La Guardia be shut down...
...them. One of the passages which will probably titillate historians in years to come is their version of what former New York Mayor William O'Dwyer was doing on Dec. 7, 1941. It seems O'Dwyer was just wrapping up a first degree murder indictment against his predecessor, La Guardia, and Sidney Hillman. The phone rang. It was President Roosevelt. Roosevelt told O'Dwyer that since the war had just broken out, O'Dwyer had better drop the charges to make sure Italians and labor unions helped along with the war effort. O'Dwyer obeyed. What makes this especially good...
...with swelling civic pride. Even people who didn't care to ride in planes enjoyed watching them land and reflecting that their city had not been bypassed by the air age. Greater New York was no exception; it was as proud of those raucous, air-age beehives, La Guardia, Idlewild and Newark Airports, as of the sight of the Queen Mary sliding majestically up the Hudson...
Elizabeth civic leaders demanded that the airport be closed permanently. Real-estate values in the city dropped. Newark flights were switched to the other New York fields last week, increasing traffic pressure at La Guardia to a point where planes were landing and taking off every two minutes and similarly heightening activity at Idlewild. This moved nearby residents of Jackson Heights and Jamaica to a wave of protest that almost matched Elizabeth's. The subject became conversational topic A in a dozen other cities throughout the nation...
...airlines, wisely, did not adopt a public-be-damned attitude. To ease the pressure at La Guardia the airlines serving New York reduced daily flights from a peak of 725 to 454. Eastern Airlines' Eddie Rickenbacker, picked by the industry as its spokesman during the crisis, said: "I want the public to be satisfied...