Word: braniff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave Braniff Airways a route from Mexico City down the west coast of South America, then across to Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. It gave Colonial Airlines permission to fly from Washington and New York to Bermuda-much to the surprise of Colonial, which had applied only for a route from New York. Again on presidential orders, CAB gave Eastern
...airlines rolled merrily along on their plane-buying spree. Last week Baltimore's Glenn L. Martin Co. announced another $7,000,000 in orders for Martin 202s. Pennsylvania-Central Airlines Corp., which had already ordered 35, signed up for 15 more. Braniff Airways bought...
Rough Flights. At Merida, a cavalcade of automobiles carrying a welcoming committee of local bigwigs was ignobly stopped at the airport gates. Armed guards once warned Braniff employes that they would be arrested for trespassing if they attempted to enter the field to service their plane. At Vera Cruz, where a Braniff plane arrived after dark, C.M.A. fieldmen refused to switch on the landing lights. At both Merida and Vera Cruz, Braniff passengers were forced to use the planes' cargo boxes in place of landing stages. They toted their own baggage, picked their way through barbed-wire fences...
Last week Braniff doggedly brought into the open the vital question: who owns and controls international airports in the Western Hemisphere? Cried Braniff Vice President Douglas Stockdale: "These airports were built as military bases for continental defense under the lend-lease laws of the United States. . . . They are considered by the military authorities of Mexico as property of the Government and neither can nor should be considered as exclusive property of C.M.A...
Showdown. At week's end, embattled Tom Braniff saw relief in sight. The Mexican Minister of Communications ordered C.M.A. to open all its airport facilities. He ruled that the fields should be considered public property, exclusive to no one. Fighting Tom Braniff had won an important point-at least for the moment...