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...kept off the job by a nationwide railroad strike, all the business enterprises whose operations would soon be hindered or halted, the President, the Congress, and the U.S. public. This time the long-fought and far-reaching dispute, bound up in the process of moving an old method of transport into modern methods, must come to some kind of resolution...
...during the '30s the government was locked in a vindictive, futile economic war with the English, though it remained economically dependent on Britain. He strove desperately to mobilize enough new industry to supply the nation's basic needs, though at high cost; he also founded the state transport network and organized a national merchant marine in time to keep Ireland fed during World War II, in which he took on the additional job of Minister of Supply, and by brilliant improvisation averted crippling shortages...
...dangerous missions in the past year. Recently, spending five days at Neutralist General Kong Le's headquarters in the Plain of Jars, she was enlisted to teach English to members of his battalion. Back home in the capital of Vientiane, in the apartment court she shares with American transport pilots and their families, she was startled to receive a return social call from Kong Le, who -ever mindful of security-had his tough little paratroopers block traffic on the road and station themselves with machine guns on the steps of her apartment as he called...
Though the Trippe rate would not take effect until next April at the earliest, he wanted to put the other carriers on early alert that Pan Am will press for cheaper travel-as it long has -when the clubby International Air Transport Association convenes next fall. l.A.T.A.'s European lines forced the U.S. to accept higher rates two months ago (TIME, May 24), but the U.S. may well be in a stronger position next fall. Reason: Congress is likely to strengthen the Civil Aeronautics Board's powers of retaliation against balky foreign lines...
...Force Academy last week, President Kennedy dropped into his speech a new section that had not been in the text issued the day before. Said the President: "I'm announcing today that the United States will commit itself to develop a commercially successful supersonic transport superior to that being built in any other country in the world...