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...able to fly coast-to-coast with two stops in 13 hours, from New York to New Orleans non-stop in less than five. For safety, it will be able to take off on three engines, fly on two. Inside, it will be as luxurious as the China Clipper, which is not quite so big. The passenger cabin will be 40 ft. long, 10 ft. wide, with a double row of seats on each side, convertible at night into compartments bigger than Pullman berths...
...China Clipper buzzed blithely into Manila for the second time. At Wake Island, on the return trip, it landed beside its sister, the Philippine Clipper, outward bound on its second trip to Manila. It was the first time two Clippers had met in transpacific service...
...South American business men took note of an announcement from U. S. postal officials that the Clipper schedule between Miami and Buenos Aires will be reduced this spring from 5½ to 4½ days...
...summer of 1934 after the U. S. Government objected to combination of air transport companies with makers of planes and engines. United Aircraft makes Pratt & Whitney engines, Hamilton propellers, Corsair military planes, Sikorsky amphibians. Good customer is Pan American Airways, for whom United Aircraft built the Sikorsky China Clipper flying the new transpacific route (TIME, Dec. 2). Earning 21? a share United Aircraft sold last week at $30, about 143 times earnings...
Last week: The China Clipper finally got away again. For 13 hours she butted head winds. Then, having gone 1,000 miles, Capt. Musick cocked an ear at a bad report from Hawaii, scooted back to Alameda...