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...British Government investigrated, the London Evening Standard broached the whole unsavory subject of plane priorities, said: "One hears of Sir Samuel Hoare's butler, Lady Reading's secretary-chauffeuse, the eleven-year-old son of the Marquess of Queensberry . . . all taking up space [in the Lisbon Clipper] . . . causing important British and American citizens to be delayed at Lisbon...
...consular service, he had met and married Alice Little of Chicago. He had seen the U.S. in the days when Japanese, in their first enthusiastic adherence to the Axis, made no secret of their indifference to U.S. opinion, of their reliance on power alone. But when the Clipper came down in San Francisco, after slipping in through the huge ring of defenses that guard the Golden Gate, Saburo Kurusu made his first U.S. statement, hopefully. Said he: "The people of Japan and the United States should take peace for granted. . . . I fully realize the difficulty of my task, but, making...
There Pan Am's Capetown Clipper paused last week on an 18,290-mile proving flight from Manhattan to Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo-a flight that will soon lead to regular fortnightly commercial service. There at Natal Pan Am is building two bases, one land...
This week Lati. at least, seemed to be on its last legs in Brazil. When Pan Am starts its South Atlantic Clipper service, there will be no more reason for Brazil to tolerate Lati...
...Havana one day last week five Cubans boarded a Pan American Clipper, took off on the first leg of a 1,200-mile junket to Washington. Handpicked by President Batista, they were to start negotiations for the possible sale of Cuba's entire 1942 sugar crop-some 4,000,000 tons worth at least...