AVIATION: Through the Back Door

U.S. steamship lines have been barred by CAB from operating scheduled airlines to foreign points, though foreign lines can do so. Last week Mobile's aggressive Waterman Steamship Corp. got around CAB. Through its subsidiary, Waterman Airlines, Inc., the steamship company made a deal to get control of TACA Airways, S.A., shaky Central and South American airline system (TIME, Dec. 31, 1945). As TACA is incorporated in Panama, it is beyond CAB's authority. Yet recently, under the reciprocal rights granted foreign lines, TACA was given the right to operate out of Miami and...

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