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Ships steaming across the North Atlantic from west to east like to keep in the Gulf Stream, which increases their speed by a knot or so at no cost. Pan American's Stratocruisers, flying from Tokyo to Honolulu, are taking the same advantage of the "jet stream," which is the Gulf Stream of the upper air. Last week one of Pan Am's clippers made the Tokyo-Honolulu run in a record 9 hr. 18 min. Its average, point-to-point speed was 422 rn.p.h., and 123 m.p.h. was a gift of the friendly jet stream...
...World War II. It is formed when a cold air mass from the Arctic or Siberia meets warm air from the south, and it often moves faster than 250 m.p.h. To Pan Am, it looked like a pot of gold. Pan Am's regular route from Tokyo to Honolulu required a fuel stop at Wake Island. The dog-legged course was 4,320 miles long and took more than 17 hours. With a boost from the jet stream, Pan Am reasoned, the hop might be made nonstop, saving 450 miles and covering part of the distance free...
...predict its position, speed and direction takes both knowledge and skill. Pan Am gathered all available data and added observations of its own. Last year, its meteorologists felt they knew enough to take the plunge. The Stratocruisers were regularly scheduled to fly nonstop from Tokyo. The first flight made Honolulu in 11½ hrs. instead...
...North Pole. As soon as the letters hit the tabloids some of the labeled ladies set up a wail. "If he means me, he's a liar," said Mrs. Richard Durant in Honolulu, "and I'll sue him from here to the North Pole." In Hollywood Mrs. Robert Howard (Actress Andrea Leeds) was' wide-eyed. "How could anyone think he could mean me?" she asked. "After all, there are lots of Mrs. Robert Howards . . . When my darling husband read the papers he said to me, 'But I didn't know you were a Democrat...
Arriving in Hawaii from Japan with her husband, Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, former Show Girl Lucille Wilson Armstrong ran into trouble with Honolulu customs men who dug into her overnight bag, found a spectacles case containing crazy cigarettes. Charged with trying to smuggle marijuana, Lucille contended that the whole case was crazy because she doesn't even wear glasses...