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...from Genoa the Manhattan brought 1,914 more, prayerfully glad to be safe in the U. S. Italy's declaration of war this week blacked out the last Continental port open to U. S. ships. Only regular passenger route left between the U. S. and Europe was by Clipper to Lisbon. Next week Pan American will up their two-plane-a-week service to three...
...Manhattan, from the American Clipper, landed Corset Manufacturer Arthur L. Peterson and caged pet. The pet was promptly chloroformed under a Federal rule banning importation of crickets...
...citizen). By 1910 he had made his third vertical-lift machine, found that it would lift itself but balked at carrying a load. Like many another helicopterphile, Igor Sikorsky soon sideslipped into airplane design. Last week, having completed the design of a new four-motored ocean clipper for American Export Airlines, Igor Sikorsky made his first public flight in a helicopter, 20 years after his earlier contraption had balked...
When World War II began, the British cartel cut the Germans out of the market, black-listed dealers who could not convince Sir Ernest's executives they would not let their purchases into the Reich. When the British held the Pan-American Clipper at Bermuda and seized U. S. ship mail at Gibraltar, one big object of their search was diamonds headed for Nazi factories. Last week U. S. industrialists might well ponder what a Hitler-dominated cartel could do to mass production...
...Geneva the League of Nations began preparing to evacuate, first to the French spa of Vichy, then if necessary to the European Clipper terminus, Lisbon. Bustling but dignified League Secretary General Joseph Avenol, a Frenchman, had already sent the League's more important documents ahead to France. "We are so disappointed that Denmark, Norway, Holland and Belgium failed to appeal to the League," commented a typical Secretariat bigwig. "The practical results might not have been great, but the appeals would at any rate have been on the League's records...