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...extra route miles and an opportunity to capture 33% of the transatlantic traffic. Pan Am will now stop in ten additional cities in Iceland, Scotland, Germany, Holland and Scandinavia, will go to Paris and Rome within a month. With the help of the 18 four-engine airplanes (DC-4s, Stratocruisers and Constellations) that it acquired in the deal, Pan Am stepped up weekly transatlantic crossings from 22 to 29. Juan Trippe still did not think its 144-plane fleet big enough. To replace aging DC-4s on the South American run, Pan Am last week signed a $21 million contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Together at Last | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...will also have something to say. In competition with T.W.A.'s 19 Constellations and five DC-4s on the transatlantic run, Pan Am already has 23 four-engined aircraft flying to Europe. With the A.O.A. merger, Pan Am will take over 17 more four-engined planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Run for the Money | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

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Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Stars, Changes, Tradition Feature H-Y Series | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...year and beating Hollywood at its own game of mass production. How badly he had flopped was shown by the prices of stocks in his two top companies, both at their eight-year lows. Gaumont-British common, which hit a high of 18s. last year, was down to 4s. 6d. last week. Odeon Theatres common, which had been up to 453., was down to 8. Commented the London Evening Standard: "In view of the gloomy estimates [of] the past year's results . . . shareholders must be prepared for shocks as far as dividends are concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Rank's Retreat | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Squeaky Burwell, 37, decided to start an airline specializing in all-expense vacation tours. He raised more than $400,000-some of it from the Du Pont family-and, with eight surplus DC-4s and DC-3s, Resort Airlines, Inc. was under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Flying Tours | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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