U.S. airlines last week sprouted all over the postwar map. Into the Washington offices of the Civil Aeronautics Board came a shower of airline route applications from Honolulu to Moscow, from Boston to Guatemala City.
Biggest, most far-flung application came from New England's little Northeast Airlines, which before the war operated only a handful of airplanes over 869 miles between Boston and New Brunswick, has since grown toward postwar power on military cargo flights across the North Atlantic (TIME, Dec. 14). Now Northeast wants to fly passengers, mail and express freight over...
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