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...Black inquiry came the first serious move to centralize regulation of aviation. Silvery Nevadan Pat McCarran wrote a Senate bill to place full control of the industry with the I.C.C. Year later, in the House, California's Clarence Lea offered a bill to create an independent Government bureau for aviation. Until the last Congress, neither bill had been able to make much headway. Both the Post Office Department and the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Air Commerce stood to lose firm political footholds if the centralization move succeeded. But this year the proposals were revived, promptly...
While everybody in the air transport business knew that the new act was far better for all concerned than anything previously devised for air industry control, they knew, too. in the words of Eastern Airlines' plain-talking War Ace Eddie Rickenbacker, that "the McCarran-Lea act will be only as good as the men who comprise the board...
First question put to the Chamber was whether to recommit the bill-i.e., kill it. As the roll call proceeded, every Senator except three (Florida's Pepper, Indiana's Van Nuys, Nevada's McCarran) was present on the floor. Then, while the gallery- so crowded that young Mrs. James Roosevelt had to sit on the stairs-held its breath, the votes were counted. Result was 48-10-43, against recommittal. Five minutes later, there followed the formality of voting on the bill itself. This time the count was 49-0-42 for passage, and the Senate...
Legislatively the storm is summed up in two bills now before Congress, one of which (Lee-McCarran Bill) would hand U. S. airlines over to the Interstate Commerce Commission while the other (Bland-Copeland Bill) would segregate over-ocean flying from domestic aviation and put it under the Maritime Commission, as Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy suggested in his famed report (TIME, Nov. 22). For Pan American, which escaped the visitation of the Black Committee in the airmail investigation, the ultimate decision is vital. Under the Lee-McCarran Bill, the I.C.C. would give preference in granting certificates for overseas air service...
Divorced. Mrs. Sylvia Patricia McCarran Breckenridge, 18, daughter of Nevada Senator Pat McCarran; from John D. Breckenridge, 22, onetime sergeant of Washington, D. C. police; in Virginia City, Nev. They eloped and were married...