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Competition. Pan American Airway's monopoly in the Pacific ran into stormy weather last week. In a report, Civil Aeronautics Board examiners recommended that United Air Lines, second biggest U.S. domestic line, be given a route from the co-terminals of San Francisco and Los Angeles to Hawaii. When & if CAB finally grants the route, United will fly two round trips a day with 50-passenger...
...winter the North Atlantic airway to Europe is no "milk run." Hurricane winds blow over desolate wastes of water. The bases are often closed in by sudden storms. Moisture-laden air can sheathe a plane in ice. With magnificent understatement, airmen used to say the route was "unreliable...
...Proved His Point. The man who runs this airway is tough, gruff Brigadier General Lawrence G. Fritz, onetime operations vice president for the T.W.A. When he was A.T.C.'s operations chief in Washington, he used to assert: "The North Atlantic . . . can be flown both east and west on regular schedule in winter as well as summer...
...heavy use in the postwar air age. Over them in the last two years nearly 5,000 Lend-Lease planes have been ferried to the Soviet Union. The route passes over rugged mountain country where the temperature in winter sometimes drops to 70 below. But the airway is relatively free of the fogs and rain that blanket the Pacific Coast from Puget Sound to the Aleutians. And it is the shortest practical route to Siberia and the coast of Asia...
...pledged itself to purchase sufficient Canadian raw materials, place enough U.S. contracts in Canada, to balance Canada's purchases in the U.S. This scheme has worked so favorably that Canada is now able to repay the U.S. in her own dollars for U.S.-built extensions to the Northwest airway to Alaska (TIME, March...