United Air Lines last week bit the hand that regulates its diet. In an angry blast at the Civil Aeronautics Board, which controls all flying routes, United said: "The Board is utterly unpredictable. . . . It has become so intent upon aiding the small carriers (and incidentally making richer the rich men who now control them) that it is slighting its . . . all important duty . . . to develop air transportation . . . for the traveling public."
United's President William A. ("Pat") Patterson was mad because CAB had turned down United's request to fly a cut-off route...
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