U. S. airlines are in much the same position as adolescent children of divorced parents. By the terms of the divorce (the Air Mail Act of 1934, passed after the celebrated Farley-Roosevelt airmail cancelation), "Mother" Interstate Commerce Commission has "influence," some jurisdiction. But "Father" Post Officeby control of the airmail subsidyhas the whip-hand. "Mother" I.C.C. would like to let the growing business expand in healthy exuberance. "Father" Post Office, remembering the airmail scandal, treats the airlines like boys in a reform school.
This situation has resulted in freezing the lines in practically the...
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