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Ann Arbor News, March 25, 1948
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CONTROL AGENTS AT WORK IN 'OPERATIONS': Shown above are the men who compute how many passengers will ride the plane, how much mail, express and freight will be carried, when the aircraft will take off and estimated arrival time of flights. Literally a nerve center of the terminal, the controlling of flights carried on in the room pictured above was formerly handled in seven separate offices by seven separate airlines at Willow Run. The adding machines on the desks are a few of dozens in use at the airport for totalling the weights of passengers, mail and other cargo.

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Ann Arbor News, March 25, 1948
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THE MAIL MUST GO THROUGH: And speedily so in the case of these airmail sacks being dragged from the door of the U. S. post office at the Willow Run terminal. Oddly enough, airmail is handled by the Railway Mail Service Division of the U. S. Postal Service. Here Marvin Hess of East Detroit hauls a bag of mail into the new radio equipped truck which will carry the letters to Detroit. Two-way communication is important when mail truck is just a few blocks from the field and a late mail plane comes in. Driver can be instructed to return to the terminal and save an extra trip. Ann Arbor mail is picked up by the local post office.

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Ann Arbor News, March 25, 1948
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METEOROLOGICAL MAP: Curved lines on the map above show the change in weather as cloud and air masses shift from one part of the country to the other. Chief meteorologist Ernest Williams (left) checks up on the map in his tiny office atop the air terminal with Mrs. Doris Schrock of Inkster, who is a meteorological aide. This is the U. S. Weather Station from which The Ann Arbor News now gets its weather information. Forecasts are made in advance up to 48 hours.

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Ann Arbor News, March 25, 1948
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PILOT'S EYE VIEW OF PASSENGERS: This photograph, taken from the window of the pilots' compartment of a DC-3, shows passengers boarding the ramp at the Willow Run terminal. Man at the foot is the ANTSCO agent who meets all arriving and departing planes. Uniformed gentleman to the extreme right is Robert G. Bane, chief plant protection officer and head of the private police force which ANTSCO maintains at the field. He supervises a staff of uniformed police and plainclothesmen.

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Ann Arbor News, March 25, 1948
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PACKAGES FOR ANN ARBOR STORES AND PLANTS: If an Ann Arbor factory or business needs parts or merchandise in a hurry, chances are delivery by air freight will be specified. Then the consignments will arrive by plane at Willow Run via Air Cargo, Inc., and will be transhipped from the cargo handling truck, (left) to a company truck, pictured to the right. The picture above was taken in a section of the huge hanger directly adjacent to the terminal part of the airport and under the same roof. More than 100,000 pounds of freight are handled here daily.

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Ann Arbor News, March 25, 1948
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DORMITORY FOR HOSTESSES: These three girls are chatting in one of the several dormitory rooms provided at the terminal by the airport management company. (Left) Miss Helen Otto, 115 Grove St., Ypsilanti, a terminal employe; Miss Jane Horton, of Milwaukee, Wis., a hostess for Capital Airlines and Miss John Potts, of Belleville, another terminal employe. Similar facilities are provided for male personnel in another part of the building.