March 20, 1950

March 20, 1950

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Headline News

Dme Order: New Life for Airway Plans

By Charles Adams6 min

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Commerce Plan Sent to Congress

Headline News

Aa Settlement Grants Severance Pay

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Headline News

Dme Order: New Life for Airway Plans

$4 million award takes all-weather navigation out of planning stage.

By Charles Adams6 min

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Headline News

Commerce Plan Sent to Congress

Measure would give secretary sweeping reorganization power; CAA slated to lose its partial autonomy
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Headline News

Aa Settlement Grants Severance Pay

American Airlines and Transport Workers Union (CIO) last week were ironing out final details of a new 18-month labor agreement covering the carrier’s ground workers. Other airlines were expecting the settlement to bring them headaches.
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Air Force Contracts

Ge Gets Bulk of January Awards

Air Force places orders in excess of $180 million, with procurement of J-47 jet engines largest items.
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Aeronautical Engineering

Reinforcement of Openings Studied

Experimental, theoretical checks at NBS bring data on doubler plate fastenings and other hole factors.
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Aeronautical Engineering

Special Sabre Performs Research Role

North American fighter ingeniously instrumented for investigating flight load problems of swept-wing craft.
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Air Transport

Nal Future Again Before Board

But more than one carrier is concerned as whole industry watches case as a test of CAB’s power.
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Aeronautical Engineering

Pilot-scientists

Advanced course trains specialists for probing secrets of fast flight.
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Financial

Industry Benefits From 4-0-4 Sales

TWA, EAL purchase of Martin plane could bring industry-wide revival of interest in transport market.

By Selig Altschul5 min

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Editorial

Washington Round-up

Inner circles of the Democratic Party concede that Air Secretary Symington is looking about. He’d like another missionary job. The Atomic Energy Commission intrigues him. Party men say he might be tempted to try to become a Missouri senator if he could forego a primary.

By Robert H. Wood4 min

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