Airline boom fuels growth as CAB weighs charter shifts
Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman Ross Rizley notes aviation's rapid expansion with 13 percent gains in domestic passenger miles in early 1955 and 18 percent on feeder lines. Cargo carriers struggle. new rules let nonsked operators enter charters. Subsidies inch down as four trunk lines remain subsidy free and trans oceanic services grow with 160 planes on order.
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Peter Edson
Washington
NEA
Civil Aeronautics Board
Ross Rizley
United States
Rizley
U. S
New York
Chicago
Los Angeles
Naumail
CAB
Constellation New York
London
Paris
U.S
Braniff
Colonial
Continental
Northeast
Trans-World Airlines
Misguided Missiles and Rising Transit CostsHeadline
The report notes higher misfiring missiles context alongside a five-alarm blaze injuring five firemen. It highlights transit fare increases to four and a quarter cents and a pay later plan boosting tourist traffic. Coach service now 35 percent of traffic, up from 1948, with projections to 75 percent in ten years.
Ten-Year-Old Blamed for Fire Rampage in Pimlico
In Baltimore on June 1 a ten year old boy was blamed for five fires in April in Pimlico northwest Baltimore. The blazes included a Hughes Lumber Co fire on Reistertown Road that destroyed a lumber mill and forced 200 people from a nearby club, injuring five firefighters.
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Baltimore
Pimlico
Hughes Lumber Co
Reistertown
Juvenile case and fires in Newton area court filing
A petition accuses a boy of wrecking an Ice plant at Newton and damaging Arlington Avenue gas storage tanks while also starting a fire in a Garrison Boulevard apartment house that woke nine residents. He faces Juvenile Court next Friday. two other fires are cited in the petition. Also reported are wartime and postwar dispatches about a Canadian pilot freed by Chinese Reds and an incident in Martinsburg where a drunk driver collided with a motorcycle officer, plus a note on a viva voce vote in the House of Representatives.
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Newton
Arlington Ave
Garrison Boulevard
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Chon
Apollo Finance CO
Fraderick
East Patrick ST
Frederick
Monument
YES
UNION
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Wih
Martinsburg
W. Va
Howard Kline
Kline
Ben Fox
House of Representatives
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Florida
Columbia
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Fayetteville
General Motors
Anighene
KEY
Chevrolet Sales, Inc
Patrick ST
Frederick, MD
Véreaille
North Market ST
Frech Horn
Nina Rush
SWIFT
Bologna
Angel Food
Angel Food Cakes
Jellow Delicious Flaveurs
del Monte
Bisquick Dole
Campbell's Pork and Beans
Boxe
Minute Maid
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