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During the week 640 pleasure-bent visitors arrived from New York aboard the luxury liner Queen of Bermuda, 1,323 more came in by Pan American clipper and other airliners. Confident that 60,000 tourists would flock this year to their shops and hotels, their pink beaches and hibiscus-hedged lanes, a few Bermudians had even given hotel prices another boost as the spring season opened...
...great Portuguese explorers. On the opposite wall, a plaque pays tribute to the foremost explorer of the modern world of the air-Juan Terry Trippe. The plaque commemorates the rediscovery of the old world by the new: the first passenger flight of Trippe and his Pan American Airways Dixie Clipper from the U.S. to Lisbon on June...
While Pan Am's President Juan Trippe proudly looked on, Margaret smashed a bottle of champagne against the Clipper America. Pan Am, which expects to put the clipper into service within a few weeks, hopes to get 19 more of the double-decked, 75-passenger monsters by late summer. With them, said Trippe, he will have "sufficient equipment to provide low-cost tourist-class service to Europe and to the Orient." Foreign governments willing, Trippe would cut transatlantic tourist rates to $225 one way and $405 round trip (present cost...
...comet was Professor John Paraskevopoulos of Harvard's observatory near Bloemfontein, South Africa, who reported his find on Nov. 7. Other southern hemisphere astronomers spotted it about the same time, as did at least one nonscientific night owl. Captain Frank McGann of Panagra saw the comet from his Clipper as he flew over the Caribbean on Nov. 4, and reported it to his base in Miami...
Last week the Ford Motor Co. added its new St. Louis plant to the river's customers, began shipping new cars to New Orleans and Houston by barge. The first load of 1,200 Fords and Mercurys was picked up at St. Louis by the Commercial Clipper and Commercial Express, two of the latest additions to the Mississippi's growing fleet. Just completed by the St. Louis Shipbuilding & Steel Co. for $500,-ooo each, for the Commercial Barge Lines, these two diesel-powered, screw-driven tows typify the modern fleet that has replaced the oldtime packets...