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Officially, military authorities declared that there was no conclusive proof that the "frequent celestial phenomena" were caused by a foreign power; they suggested tactfully that most of the missiles, after cruising in a wide semicircle over Sweden, proceeded toward Russia. Unofficial Swedes simply called the mystery missiles "Russian V-4s...
Eight miles southeast of Berlin German scientists were working on V- (V=Vergeltung=Reprisal) under the supervision of Soviet scientists and military personnel. Known to the Germans as Magnetische Luftabwehrwaffe, the V-4s is an improved high-altitude magnetic rocket...
...local subsidiary and the first non-U.S. company to get a Constellation, flew one from Rio to Casablanca to scout a route to London and Paris for the first Brazilian overseas airline. But Panair President Paulo Sampaio had only a brief headstart on Cruzeiro, whose DC-4s will be flying the Atlantic before summer...
...present, the limitation will not hurt U.S. companies. Their DC-4s cannot carry more than 500 passengers weekly. But Pan Am and American expect to get bigger Constellations in the next few months. If the limitation is still in force, they will then be forced to fly some of their planes partly empty. Passengers who want to fly will have to pay higher rates and travel on BOAC's obsolescent Clippers. U.S. airmen hoped that the limitation would be temporary, and would be lifted when the North Atlantic Conference of the International Air Transport Association meets in New York...
...week's end the threat of a rate war settled down into an uneasy armistice. Pan Am confessed that its DC-4s were not quite ready, but hopes to start them this week. It put off its fare cut until they are ready to begin. Vastly relieved, American Airlines went ahead with preparations for its first flight-at the old rate...