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...Pacific Clipper, inbound from Auckland, New Zealand. Captain Ford reporting, due to arrive Pan American Marine Terminal seven minutes...
This radio message made the control-tower officer at New York's LaGuardia Airport jump. He was not expecting an Atlantic Clipper, to say nothing of a Pacific Clipper. But he cleared the big ship into a landing and stood by to hear how come. What he heard was not just a flight report: it was an epic...
...Pacific Clipper was outward bound from San Francisco, flying from New Caledonia to Auckland, when a coded message told them of the Japanese war. The skipper, Captain Robert Ford, signaled Auckland for "all clear"; then silenced the ship's transmitter, changed course and altitude, made new tracks for Auckland...
...Monday afternoon to find an immense crowd lining the seawall which overlooks the airbase. Thousands of expectant Brazilians were waiting for something, but it was not for the Argentine delegation. Five minutes later, however, while the Buenos Aires representatives were still on the scene, a huge, forty-ton Yankee clipper zoomed out of the skies an disgorged its immaculate cargo, Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles, complete with walking stick. This was what the crowd was there for; they greeted him enthusiastically. "Hats were thrown in the air and shouts of 'Viva America' and 'Bravo Welles' resounded as the tall...
...Atlanta (sponsored when it was launched by Margaret Gone With the Wind Mitchell), which went into commission at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn last week. First new cruiser to enter active duty in two years, she moves her 6,000 tons around with the grace of a Clipper, can do about 43 knots (some 50 m.p.h.), is figured to be faster by at least three knots than Japan's new 9,000-ton cruisers. A trio of sister ships will soon follow her into commission. The U.S. needs them badly. At last count, the Japs...