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...market v. 22 in 1949. Most of them get far more than U.S. carriers out of the bargain, often add extra flights to siphon off as many passengers as possible in violation of the spirit of the Bermuda agreement. In return for permitting Pan American to serve Amsterdam, KLM flies into New York and Houston. Result: last year KLM collected $29.4 million on 86,225 U.S. passengers, while Pan Am got only $1,700,000 from 2,842 Dutch passengers. While cutting into U.S. markets, foreign carriers are strengthening themselves against inroads into their home territory; e.g., European carriers...
...Intourist has a permanent representative in the U.S., books tourists through a dozen major U.S. travel agencies and 50 associated agencies. Chief among them: American Express, which now has its own office in Moscow, and Manhattan's Cosmos Travel Bureau. Six Western European airlines (SAS, Finnair, Air France, KLM, Sabena and British European Airways) fly into Russia, occasional boat cruises ply the Black Sea, and tourists can even enter Russia in their own autos...
While the Germans are not eager for U.S. capital, most European companies (such as Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries, Holland's KLM) rolled out the red carpet. The analysts liked Holland and Germany best, particularly their electronic and chemical industries. France and Italy, they said, have too much government interference for most U.S. investors; Britain is suitable except where nationalization is a danger...
...entertainer named Max Tailleur got a letter from a couple named Cornelis and Margaretha Muylaert. Emigrants to Canada eight years ago, the Muylaerts wrote that they were longing to see their country and their daughter, her husband and their grandchildren. Glowing at the humanity of it all, Tailleur got KLM to agree to fly the homesick couple over, arranged for the dramatic reunion to take place on Radio Nederland...
...young couples were brought together before the microphones. Seeing her mother, daughter Tine Mak, who is pregnant, promptly collapsed. Seeing her son-in-law, Margaretha Muylaert cried: "I think he's a horrid fellow." Son-in-law Adriaan Mak, a headwaiter, turned to a KLM representative and said angrily: "I told you this would happen, but you wouldn't listen...