Word: instrumental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's tall, dictatorial Lord Swinton, Civil Aviation Minister, suggested, in line with Britain's white paper (TIME, March 26), that traffic within the Empire be split equally between Britain's Chosen Instrument, the British Overseas Airways Corp., and Commonwealth air lines...
Unpractical Instrument...
...mother of nine, Mrs. Grace Keefe ("Women's League for Political Education''). To her the Charter was "an instrument insuring our perpetual involvement in all future wars...
...Bastille Day (July 14) the French Government made a revolutionary announcement: the guillotine, which like military conscription, is one of the fruits of the French Revolution, is about to go the way of the auto-da-fe as an instrument of human justice. Henceforth condemned Frenchmen will not have to lie down and bare their necks to the falling knife; they may, as soon as transportation and the French electric-power shortage permit, sit down in a shiny new, U.S.-made electric chair...
...last week finally laid down, for the world to see, its postwar international air policy. The policy: regulated competition on international routes, instead of a chosen instrument. Without waiting any longer for Congress to act, President Truman approved the choice of the Civil Aeronautics Board for airlines to fly the Atlantic. As expected (TIME, July 9), the routes were granted to Pan American Airways, Transcontinental & Western Air, and American Export Airlines; American Airlines got permission to buy control of American Export Airlines...