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...trouble began when word got about that the Russians had brought a whole shipload of caviar and vodka. Actually, the Russian ship anchored in San Fran cisco Bay was there primarily for radio communication with Moscow. Some of the delegation lived aboard, and they presumably had a supply of their national food and drink. But the refreshments were incidental. Thanks to Russian secrecy about the ship, and the press's failure to check, tongues were clacking furiously when Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov arrived by plane from Washington...
overseas airline, filed its broad claims with this plan in mind. Pan Am traffic experts guesstimated that they would fly passengers from Los Angeles to Sydney in 32 hours (fare: $295); from San Fran cisco to Shanghai in 36 hours (fare: $303 ); from Seattle to Juneau in less than four hours (fare...
...bought the Mobeley Hotel in Cisco, Tex., on the eve of the Texas oil boom. This deal set the future Hilton pattern-step in when the boom is starting and the property value low, make it pay, unload at the peak. He applied this pattern to a long series of small Texas and New Mexico hotels, putting the profits of one into the purchase price of the next...
...would either ride trains or stay home. The Civil Aeronautics Board is reshuffling all airline schedules, hopes to have a fresh set ready soon. Some details have leaked out: daily flights on the important New York-Washington beat may be slashed from 52 to 16; on the San Fran-cisco-Los Angeles run from 13 to eight; on many small "feeder" lines to none at all. Air mail also will get clipped; the Army this week was ominously silent when asked about rumors that much air mail will be grounded. The Cost. All this will cost the airlines a pretty...
...admirers, including the Mexican Ambassador to the U. S. and a posse of his own relatives, rushed out to shake his hand, kiss him, slap his back. For Fran cisco Sarabia had set a new record of 10 hrs. 48 min. for the Mexico City-New York flight, beating the old record (set by the late Amelia Earhart...