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Lumbering Pan American Airways clippers make the New York-to-Lisbon run in 24 flying hours with stops at Bermuda and the Azores. This week one of Pan Am's sleek new Constellations made the New York to Lisbon flight nonstop on a survey hop. Time: 9 hours, 58 minutes. Speed: 344 miles an hour...
Next month, Pan Am will start flying DC-45 regularly to Lisbon by way of Ireland. Time: 19 hours, 15 minutes; one way fare: $295. Later Pan Am will switch to Constellations, and when it can get land-plane rights in the Azores flights will be routed that way, flying-time and fares...
...find an officer "who could be made an example of." (The FBI, fearful of looking like a Gestapo, refused.) Once a decoder was caught in Boston trying to sell the secret. Once, well-meaning agents of the Office of Strategic Services ransacked the Japanese Embassy in Lisbon, whereupon the Japs adopted a new code for military attaches. This code remained unbroken more than a year later. The worst scare of all came during the 1944 presidential campaign, when George Marshall heard that Thomas E. Dewey knew the secret and might refer to it in speeches (see below...
Down too went its transatlantic air-express rates, from $2.02 per pound to $1.17. Pan Am also shaved passenger rates on the New York -Lisbon run and on many a Latin American route. Signifi cantly, the drop in rates was greatest -as on the Atlantic routes - where the competition was keenest. Having sunk its knife deep into the hides of competitors, Pan Am then gave it a turn. Said Pan Am: when it gets its new planes now on order (see below) it plans to cut rates again...
Some observers in Lisbon thought, however, that at a time when authoritarianism was out of fashion, Strong Man Salazar might have lost more than he gained by an election he called "as free as those in England." Though his budgets balance perfectly as ever, food is scarce, living costs up 60 to 100%. Resentments kindled in the elections might catch fire later among the businessmen. Communists, intellectuals and naval officers who comprise his disunited opposition...