In the days when American commercial air policy was being set, President Truman had shown no particular interest in it. He had let the Civil Aeronautics Board plot the course and fly the plane. But last week, to the vast discomfiture of Pan American Airways, the President took over—plane, pilot, CAB and all.
For 17 months CAB had been studying the application of eleven U.S. lines for Latin American routes. Finally it decided that four domestic lines should be given Caribbean routes to compete with Pan Am. But the board did not think Pan Am needed any U.S. flag competition...
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