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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office at Sacramento one day last week, he sat like a defensive halfback behind his sleek, cork-covered desk. Up to the desk came California's Republican Chairman Arthur W. Carlson. In his hands, Carlson carried a framed copy of a resolution, neatly hand-lettered, adopted by the Republican state committee. The resolution asked Earl Warren's permission to line up a Republican convention delegation...
...other pastors: Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Southern Baptist Louie D. Newton, Northern Baptist Edwin T. Dahlberg, Disciples' W. E. Garrison...
Information, Please (Fri. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). Guests: Georgia's ex-Governor Ellis Arnall and New Hampshire's Senator Charles W. Tobey...
Action. Eleven hours after the Gallup fire, American Airlines' Board Chairman Cyrus Rowlett Smith ordered American's 35 DC-6s grounded "until we know" the reason for the fires. Shortly after, United Air Lines' President W. A. Patterson grounded United's 34 DC-6s. President Truman's own Independence, a DC-6, came under the quarantine...
...Donald W. Douglas, whose Douglas Aircraft Co. had poured $13,400,000 of engineering and research and $1,500,000 of testing into the DC-6, concurred. Until the trouble was found, said Douglas, "all further passenger flying in these airplanes should be discontinued." It was the first time that a whole line of transport planes (there were 75 in service) had been grounded without a governmental order...