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Show Taxi Firms to Start Air Helicopter Service A number of long established taxi-cab taxi-cab companies, such as Frank Sawyers' Saw-yers' Checker Taxi of Boston, have applied for general air taxi service by helicopter. This field too, has its specialists for at least two operators, opera-tors, who for years have transported passengers between airports and downtown districts, stand ready to perform the same function with helicopters. heli-copters. One of them is John P. Carey, president of the Grand Central Cadillac Renting corpora- tion, who furnishes limousine service serv-ice between LaGuardia airport and the Airlines Terminal building in New York, and the other is Joe Ferrant's Airdrome transport which would be at the beck and call of film stars on the west coast William Edward Hann of Detroit, proposes to replace horses by airplanes air-planes in the sightseeing field. He has filed application to make it possible pos-sible for saddle-shy tourists to see Grand Canyon National park. Rain bow Bridge national monument in Utah and Canyon de Chellynational monument, Arizona, by airplane. There are scores of other applications applica-tions now on file and more are com-! com-! ing in daily for new businesses, new and novel enterprises with the use of airplanes. As of the first of June more than 600 such applications were on file with the Civil Aeronautics Aeronau-tics board. This number will be increased in-creased at a rapid rate during the months following V-J Day. |