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...throttles wide open, the Star of the East, a DC-4 of Pan American World Airways' Cuban affiliate Aviacion Cubana, roared northeastward out of Bermuda's Kindley Field before dawn one day last week. Just after the takeoff, one of the four engines of the Madrid-to-Havana plane faltered. "I was just going to run to the front of the cabin and warn the passengers when we hit the water," Steward Orlando Lopez Suarez later recalled. "The tail broke off ... I found a rubber dinghy, but it was punctured and would not inflate . . . then the plane sank...
...crumb popped into Pan Am's mouth: one of the five companies favored was Compañia Nacional Cubana de Aviacion, which Pan Am owns. The other two companies: Expreso Aereo Inter-Americano, S.A., for service between Miami and Havana; and Royal Dutch Air Lines (KLM), Miami to Curaçao and Aruba...
...Roosevelt is apparently going to have an early chance to show how sincere he was in his annunciation of a new and more altruistic policy in South and Central American diplomacy. Yesterday in Cuba the government assumed control of the Compania Cubana de Electricitad after the company had failed to come to an agreement with its employees and a strike resulted. The company is an affiliate of the Electric Bond and Share Company and represents an investment of about two hundred million dollars; consequently there is bound to be a terrific howl raised in Wall Street for American intervention...
...salesman can now hurry with never an hour lost on a train. For Pan American Airways Corp. (holding company for the system) announced the purchase of practically all of Cuba's air transport industry, the 14 airports, eleven planes, 850 miles of route, of Campania Nacional Cubana de Aviation, S. A. Though Compania Nacional will be operated as an independent unit, its personnel kept intact (largely as balm to Cuban national feeling), it will be coordinated with Pan American's three trunk lines. North-bound passengers from Barranquilla and Jamaica can change at Cienfuegos to plane instead...
Eleven Years, Most important boy in Connecticut's Rumsey Hall school last week was small Paul Vecker, 11, son of General Manager W. Paul Vecker of Compania Cubana de Electricidad. Unescorted, tugging at a heavy suitcase, small Paul went to Newark airport, boarded an Eastern Air Transport plane for Miami, there to change to Pan American Airways, to spend his Easter holidays with his parents in Cuba...