In Manhattan's Hotel Lexington, representatives of ten airlines from eight different countries gathered. It was the first meeting of the North Atlantic Conference of the International Air Transport Association. Some of the airmen had traveled over 4,000 miles to attend this long-awaited meeting to fix minimum Atlantic fares. It lasted just five minutes. Reason: the Civil Aeronautics Board had not granted U.S. airlines permission to participate.
The evening before the conference, CAB announced that it had deferred all consideration of the question. CAB gave as the reason the fact that representatives of the U.S. State Department, CAB and Britian are meeting...
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