United States Repeats Sky Freedom Plan at ICAO
The United States presented a take-it-or-leave-it freedom of the air plan at the ICAO conference, seeking unlimited air travel freedom with minimal global limits. It would allow nations to retain internal routes, require reasonable direct links, and allow non traffic stops to be offered as needed.
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Chicago
United States
Great Britain
Padolf Berle, Jr
Britain
International Organization
Girl with Burning Broom Foils B-17 Crash on Tracks
In Charlotte, Miss Peggy Parsley, an Eastern Airlines employee, lights a burning broom and signals a stalled B-17 to stop a fast moving train moments before a crash would occur. The bomber crew are unharmed.
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Girl
Charlotte
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Southern Railway
Peggy Parsley
Eastern Airlines
Yankees Disdain Safety Die with Helpless Chinese
Aboard a combat cargo plane over an unnamed front, 50 Chinese soldiers jammed on the floor and 56 without parachutes ride to a distant front. The crew chose to ride her in rather than abandon the mission, risking their lives to transport the vulnerable soldiers. Three planes ditched for fuel shortages. all but one landed safely back.
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Clyde A. Farnsworth
Olen F. Love
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P.S
U S Brands for Yanks in Britain
London reports that non combatant United States soldiers will be allowed two packages a week of their favorite American cigarettes starting Monday. The change follows a 10 day period during which sales to non combatants were halted, provoking protests from troops.
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London
United States
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