Word: monroney
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...problem is the high dropout rate among air controller trainees at the FAAs Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City. When the strike began last August, the FAA announced plans to train 5,500 new controllers a year, triple the usual number; nine months later only 1,490 have graduated from the Oklahoma academy. Of the 717 trainees who enrolled in the first class last August, only 406 passed; normally 75% of the trainees graduate from the twelve-to 16-week program. Since then, the entrance exams have been made more stringent, and the FAA claims that now about...
DIED. A. S. Mike Monroney, 77, tall, amiable Oklahoma Democrat who in the course of a 30-year (1939-69) House and Senate career became known as Capitol Hill's "Mr. Aviation"; of a heart attack and pneumonia; in Rockville, Md. He earned the nickname because of his efforts to promote the growth of the U.S. air-travel industry, which included the introduction in 1958 of the bill that created what is now the Federal Aviation Administration...