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...American are the only scheduled U.S. carriers making freight flights over the route, and most of their cargo takes second place to passengers. Last week, pressed by the urgent shipments of U.S. aid abroad, the CAB handed a big slice of the business to a younger airline. Its name: Seaboard & Western Airlines, Inc., which has flown some 2,700 flights across the Atlantic and Pacific since 1947 as a nonscheduled carrier...
...gave Seaboard permission to make 72 flights a month to Europe, Asia and the Middle East on a temporary basis, provided that it carries at least 40% Government cargo on its outbound trips. Thus, Seaboard will be able to set up regular flights, get the benefits of scheduled service. CAB, which once turned down Seaboard's application for permanent scheduled Atlantic routes, also agreed to reconsider the application...
Brother Act. For Seaboard, vainly seeking a certificate since 1947, the victory was moral as well as financial. It came as a direct recommendation from President Truman, who is interested in building up transoceanic cargo carriers for use in case of war. To this influential voice, Seaboard itself added some strong arguments. CAB's own figures, said Seaboard, showed that Pan American and T.W.A. together had flown only nine scheduled all-cargo flights last year while foreign airlines took the big share of the U.S. air cargo business with 339 flights. Furthermore, the U.S. lines' share...
...Seaboard's fast climb has been piloted by two brothers: Raymond (35) and Arthur (38) Norden.* Born in New York, both learned to fly in the Navy, later served in the Army Transport Command, where they learned enough about cargo flying to be enthusiastic about its future. With $80,000 from relatives and friends, and $200,000 from banks, they started Seaboard in 1946 with two surplus C-54s. Quipped Art Norden: "If you have one plane, you're a pilot; if you have two, you're an airline." In 1947, Seaboard grossed $269,000, made...
Elephants Aloft. It soon earned a reputation for flying planes anywhere, anytime, carrying anything. Four days after the Russian blockade, Seaboard was asked by the Air Force to help in the Berlin airlift. Ten hours later, Seaboard's was the first airlift plane to reach Germany from the U.S. A week after Korea, Seaboard hit the unfamiliar Pacific airlift route from San Francisco to Tokyo. In its scramble for other cargoes, Seaboard has shuttled the Aga Khan's race horses across the Atlantic, flown German war brides to the U.S., elephants from Siam to New York. A Turkish...