Sixteen years ago Charles Coolidge Parlin, commercial researcher for Curtis Publishing Co., toured the U.S., studied the automobile industry. "Conservatively," accurately, he then forecast the mergers, used-car crises and heavy casualties among builders which soon after came to pass.
Last week appeared Mr. Parlin's analysis of the aviation industry, based on a six-month, 20,387-mi. flying survey of the land. "Conservatively" predicted Researcher Parlin:
In ten years, 250,000 privately owned planes will fly the U. S. airways; in 15 years, 1,000,000.
Air transport between neighboring major cities will approach "streetcar frequency."
A large proportion...
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