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Gradually it has been borne in upon us in this country that aerology is a most important phase of the Weather Bureau services.  In other lands, recognition of this fact had already occurred.  The most eloquent demonstration of the new attitude toward the Weather Bureau will be found not so much in the Civil Aeronautics Act as in the Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1939, where for the first time the appropriation to the Weather Bureau for aerology totals more than the appropriation to that Bureau for all other purposes. But the Civil Aeronautics Act itself sets forth, at last, in clear terms the vital aerological function of the Weather Bureau. See Sec. 803. It provides that the Bureau shall furnish reports and forecasts to the Authority and to air carriers, as well as to others engaged in aeronautics, in the manner and with the frequency best suited to safety in air navigation; that it shall maintain the necessary stations for this purpose; that it shall cooperate with the air carriers in meteorological service; and that it shall detail annually members of its personnel for training at civilian institutions or otherwise in advanced methods of meteorological science. These provisions, particularly the last, have long been needed and have been consistently sought, both by the carriers and by the Weather Bureau.
  An additional measure to promote safety was adopted by empowering the Authority to require public notice of the construction or alteration, or proposed construction or alteration, of any structure along or near civil airways where such notice will promote safety. See Sec. 1101. In no law hitherto has any governmental agency been given the power to require notice of this sort. Thus it has been entirely possible to erect structures such as transmission lines without warning. The Authority, if it will, can now take adequate steps to make certain that all operators of aircraft will be notified prior to the construction of such hazards.
  When we turn from the regulation of safety and the functions of the Government in building "roads in the air" and providing for their effective use, to the provisions of the new Act relating to economic regulation, we come to a phase of Government regulation for which there has been no appreciable precedent in aeronautics. The rather fumbling efforts in the Air Mail Act to provide some means of economic regulation can hardly be dignified as a precedent for the comprehensive and carefully formulated regulation of the new statute.
  It is the details rather than the philosophy or the broader principles of this regulation with which the traffic man will be most concerned.
  The economic regulation, like the safety regulation, adopts the certificating procedure as the basic device for Government control. See

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