In the map-hung Manhattan office of modest, genial Vice President James Murchie Eaton one day last week gathered a handful of American Export Airlines executives, pilots, engineers. It was 5 p.m.quitting time. It was also mid-Julythe day they had all been waiting for.
A quarter of an hour had ticked away .when out from a nearby office exploded Executive Vice President John Elliot Slater, jumpy as a terrier. He hollered: "We've got it!" American Export had got CAA per mission to go into the U. S. transatlantic air trade, hitherto the monopoly...
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