Word: braniff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought he could speed things up. He held that it should not take months-as it often has-for CAB to make up its mind. Last week he got a chance to prove it. Up before CAB came one of the airlines' bitterest squabbles-the fight between Braniff Airways, Inc. and Pan American Airways Corp. for business in Latin America (TIME...
...three weeks, President Thomas Braniff expects to start flying his new routes from Houston, Tex. to Lima, Peru; eventually he will fly to Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. The routes cut straight across the juicy domains once monopolized by Pan American Airways and Pan American-Grace (Panagra flies the West Coast, Pan Am the East). Both lines opposed Braniff's entry on the ground that the territory could not support a third U.S. flag line. But President Truman, taking the matter out of CAB's hands, gave Braniff the routes...
...month ago, Pan Am and Panagra carried their fight to Congress. They pointed out that Braniff had asked for airmail subsidies of $3,000,000 a year, 22 times what it had originally estimated it would need. Last week they made a last-ditch effort to get CAB to hold new hearings...
...week's end Pan Am was fighting back in the only way still open: it refused to let Braniff use Pan Am South American airport facilities, communications...
...first DC-6s will take to the air again this week. Douglas Aircraft Co. said it had caught the bugs that had caused two plane fires (and the death of 52) last fall and grounded the planes. American Airlines will resume its DC-6 transcontinental flights; United, National, Braniff, Panagra and Sabena will begin to put their planes in service soon afterwards...