JET-AGE SLOWNESS
THE CAB is a creature imprisoned by its own structure and procedures. It is unable to form clear policy. It is unable to make sound and comprehensive plans. It is unable to administer its affairs with vigor and dispatch." Such was the biting indictment of the Civil Aeronautics Board made by former CAB Member Louis Hector in his letter of resignation to President Eisenhower last fall. Last week this view was echoedand then someby the U.S. airline industry. The industry is beset by jet-age problems that cry for solutionand airmen feel that CAB is trying to solve...
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