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However, the point we wish to emphasize here is not that New York Airways has been successful in meeting complex problems, but rather to make as graphic as we are able the point that despite the recent technological break-throughs the future development of this business cannot yet be expected to be markedly easier than its past. In other words, we will have to continue digging just as hard as ever before to bring the state of our economic advance to the highest level attainable with the technological means now, finally, at our disposal. 
Just as it has required time for the industry to reach the technologi-cal position in which it now finds itself, it will also require time (equally obvious, we submit) to get beyond this position to the point of economic self-sufficiency. That essential time would be allowed under the five year sub-sidy elimination program reflected in the recent Civil Aeronautics Board orders, but would plainly not be available if all further Federal support for these continued efforts is suddenly to be cut off at the end of this year. 
If that were to happen, we would have no alternative but to discon-tinue these operations, for there is no basis known to us on which we could, without continued federal support, translate into actual services benefitting the transportation system of the United States, the revolutionary improve-ments which are not within our immediate reach after so many years of effort and the investment of so much in both public and private funds.