If the U.S. spends $500,000,000 on airports, how should the money be spent? Last week the Civil Aeronautics Administration, which expects to spend that much on the seven-year Federal Aid Airport Program, told how it hoped to do the job.
CAA raised the hackles of big-city mayors two months ago by proposing to bear half the cost of all airport projects up to $2,000,000. For bigger projects, CAA would scale down its help below the 50%. CAA thought that what the U.S. needed was more smaller airports to boost private flying. But big-city mayors, led by Chicago's Ed Kelly, argued with a...
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