Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four-power agreement . . . [were] to be all that this country envisaged . . . such an accord would necessarily tend to stimulate the assumption by the four powers of the rights and prerogatives of world dictators. It would be suspect in the minds of all of the lesser powers as an instrument in derogation of their own sovereignty...
...requisites for leading the world in flying the postwar world. > Am Ex opposes putting U.S. international flying "in the hands of a single American company-a chosen instrument -or a monopoly." It does not believe that "the alternative to monopoly would be unbridled competition...
These strong words left the "chosen instrument" policy to a lonely, powerful pair: Juan Terry Trippe's Pan American Airways and William A. Patterson's United Air Lines (TIME, Aug. 23). Nothing daunted, Bill Patterson last week spoke his own strong words in reply to the Am Ex defection. In an open letter to CAB, Patterson bluntly recommended legislation to bar any individual U.S. line from transocean flying except as part of a single U.S. flag operation...
...Mexico's twelve-year-old, 1,675-mile Lineas Aereas Mineras, S.A. LAMSA connects Mexico City with the U.S.* and with eleven important cities across the rich center of Mexico. Thus the one U.S. domestic airline which joined hands with Pan American Airways in sponsoring the "chosen instrument" policy for international flying after the war (TIME, Aug. 23) became the first (except for American's direct flights to Mexico City) to compete with Pan Am below the Rio Grande...
...Weather Bureau has just developed a photoelectric instrument, using a vertical beam of light and a phototube scanning the beam, which quickly measures cloud heights day or night by triangulation...