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...Allow Braniff International Airways to fly into Buenos Aires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Something Positive | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

Remembering the beating he had taken at the hands of the automobile industry, he fought his competitors for every minute advantage. Once when Braniff bid a low $0.00001907378 a mile for airmail subsidy, Rickenbacker got the bid by offering to fly the mail for nothing. He adopted a policy of waiting for other lines to use new aircraft-and risk crashes-before adopting them himself. He insisted on personally checking every expense item over $100, swore that he would never pay a dividend on Eastern's stock (he has 100,000 shares, is the largest stockholder) as long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Durable Man | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Quick Answer | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Quick Answer | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Quick Answer | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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