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...AIRWAYS CZAR to control jet-age traffic will be either CAA administrator James Pyle or President's aviation adviser, Lieut. General (ret.) Elwood Quesada. Commerce Under Secretary Louis Rothschild sorely wanted job, but airmen protested he was too close to rail interests...
Died. Lieut. General Claire Lee Chennault, U.S.A. (ret.), 67, fighter pilot; of lung cancer; in New Orleans...
...TERRA Major, U.S.A. (ret.) Cambridge, Mass...
Both Ike's economic and political advisers decided that the Administration had to counteract the bad news. Stacked up in the custody of Ike's public-works assistant, Major General (ret.) John S. Bragdon, were detailed plans for several billion dollars worth of public-works projects, ready for sending to Congress on short notice. But the Administration saw no reason to abandon its long-standing basic position: I) eased credit, stepped-up defense spending and underlying economic strengths will get things perking up by midyear, and 2) drastic, too-much-too-soon recovery programs might fuel...
Died. Air Chief Marshal (ret.) Sir John Nelson Boothman, 56, winner of the last Schneider Trophy air race (in 1931) by flying at 340.08 m.p.h. (then a record speed) in a Supermarine 56B, director during World War II of photo-reconnaissance for the RAF Coastal Command; in Stanmore, England...