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...hand at deflating competitors, announced that it was immediately cutting its passenger fare to Great Britain from $525 to Foynes to $275 all the way to London. It could do this, it said smoothly, because it was ready to start transatlantic service this week with Douglas DC-4s, faster and cheaper to operate than Clippers...
...already announced that its first transatlantic commercial flight, in a DC-4, would leave for London this week. Hastily, American tried to decide whether to drop its fare to meet Pan Am's rate. Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., which could hardly wait to start transatlantic flying in DC-4s, suddenly cooled. It decided to postpone its Atlantic service until its fleet of highspeed, low-operating Constellations are delivered next month...
...charge of this bond-selling campaign is Austin L. Wyman '4S, chairman of the War Service Committee...
...days later, the airlines got another piece of good news. The U.S. Army announced that it will release twenty 40-passenger four-motored planes (DC-4s) for commercial transatlantic flying "late in the summer or early fall." By then, the airlines hope that the State Department will clear their landing rights and they will be ready to fly the routes...
...cadets now in training will have graduated by the eve of the football season. Cadets will then be arriving and leaving every two weeks. Barring this slight difficulty with personnel, by mid-October the Navy's preflight football teams should be rolling like Army M-4s...