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...predictions of nonstop London-New York schedules of six hours. Until its range was improved, the Comet would not be able to make nonstop London-New York flights at all. De Havilland itself estimated that it would take twelve hours for the trip, counting refueling time at Prestwick and Gander. Lockheed's 43-passenger Constellation now makes...
...Obedience. For an opening appetizer, shrewd Manager Rudolf Bing (who will get a chance to demonstrate his shrewdness as manager of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera next year) served up one dish that is always good for a gander...
...Last week some visitors were crossing Cabot Strait, 100 miles by ferry to Port aux Basques, where they took the 547-mile-long narrow-gauge railway to the capital city of St. John's (pop. 56,000). Others flew to Gander Airport. Still others sailed through the narrow channel that leads to St. John's landlocked harbor...
...return, besides the Gander rights U.S. airlines got several much less important routes into Canada. Some U.S. airmen were outraged. They complained that their lines had not been permitted to participate in the negotiations, although T.C.A. had. Colonial Airlines' fiery President Sigmund Janas, who has spent 19 years building up traffic on the New York-Montreal route, was the hardest hit. He charged that the agreement had been made at "unprecedented secret and concealed negotiations." Said he: "Nothing more shocking ever has occurred in international aviation diplomacy . . . valuable rights [have been] sold down the river...
Britons also had cause for worry; last week, facing Canada's same strong card, they too were negotiating to keep their traffic rights at Gander...