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...maintenance records, from the time that the plane came off the production line, are studied for signs of bugs. All eyewitnesses are interrogated, and what they saw-the angles and distances-is recorded by surveyor's transit so that the CAB will be able to plot the flight path with great accuracy. If bodies of the crew are found, they are examined for alcohol, carbon-monoxide poisoning, heart attack, stroke, even bullet holes or other inflicted wounds. And all recorded conversations between crew and ground stations are minutely studied for clues...
...some fares. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 52, the mayor of New York with ambitions for higher office, is a consummate politician who wants to stay on the safe side with bus riders and labor unions. Last week these two determined men collided on the streets of New York, snarling public transit from the Bowery to The Bronx. The nation's biggest metropolitan bus line was stalled by a strike, and Bob Wagner was pledged to wrest it from the control of Harry Weinberg...
...went into the tire-recapping business, got rich by investing in Depression-era real estate. By buying low and selling high, he made a fortune after the war in depreciated bonds of the Baltimore Transit Co., saw the huge-and often overlooked-profit potentials in city transit. He bought heavily into the Scranton Transit Co., then got control as its receiver after an eight-month strike drove it to the brink of bankruptcy. Typically...
Weinberg halved the payroll and chopped services, but Scranton Transit now rides in the black, and a union man says grudgingly, "That guy kept 125 jobs that might have been lost." Then he bought control of Honolulu Transit, used Honolulu Transit assets to buy Dallas Transit, and Dallas Transit money to buy control of Fifth Avenue Coach...
...Coach Lines, and his one-man war against traffic sanity in New York. Weinberg, who took over the line several months ago from a management that confessed to its own incompetence, has proved an impossible man to deal with. His intransigence has resulted in the present strike of the Transit Workers against his line, and a new political struggle over the line's future between Mayor Wagner and Albany Republicans...