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...Conn., since then, has gone many an amphibian to the U. S. Navy, many a transport to Pan American Airways, many an air-yacht to U. S. tycoons. Two years ago his Russian mechanics built the world's first giant amphibian (S-40), the famed 40-passenger Yankee Clipper used on Pan American's over-water routes...
Next fortnight she is scheduled to fly to Rio de Janeiro to be christened Brazilian Clipper by the wife of Brazil's President Vargas. Thereafter in Pan American's Miami-Rio-Buenos Aires service she will cut air travel time from seven days to five...
Manhattan's historic Hanover Square has been a trading place for staples ever since clipper ships poked their prows across its cobblestones in the time of George I. The Commodity Exchange was formed there in May 1933 by a merger of the Rubber, Silk, Metals and Hide Exchanges. All four had been sponsored by the same group of commodity traders? Francis Robinson Henderson, who made and lost fortunes in rubber; Lawyer Julius B. Baer; Jerome Chester Cuppia, partner in E. A. Pierce & Co.; and Jerome Lewine, partner in H. Hentz & Co. A fifth venture, the Burlap & Jute Exchange...
...John Hazard Browning, descendant of a Rhode Island settler who bought a "dwelling house and two lots of acres . . . for ?3 in wampum" had been in the clothing business 27 years when news of gold at Suiter's Mill burst upon New York. He packed clipper ships with pants and coats as fast as they could be sewed together, sent them around the Horn to be traded for gold nuggets on the Coast...
...clipper will be factory-tested as soon as the Housatonic River is free of ice. Pan American will test it from New York to Miami, will accept it when it proves itself able to fly 1,250 mi. nonstop at 150 m.p.h. with full complement of passengers, crew and mail. It will probably be slated for the run from Miami to Buenos Aires, which it is expected to cut from seven days to five. If so, it will become the world's biggest and fastest airplane in Regular over-water service...