Word: lufthansa
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...character was his hatred of Naziism, a single-minded purpose which had forced him to lead a double life. During World War II, he served simultaneously in the Abwehr (Wehrmacht counterintelligence) and as a British secret-service contact. He was legal adviser to the Nazis' Lufthansa Airline and a secret anti-Nazi resistance worker. One memorable day ten years ago last week. Otto John landed at war-battered Tempelhof Airfield, where his brother, Hans, waited...
...years just before World War II, Lulu took a transport-pilot's license, went to work in the front office of Lufthansa, and joined the Luftwaffe reserve as a pilot. He found his progress blocked at every turn by the Nazis, who feared, he says, to let him become prominent lest he revive royalist feeling in the Reich...
...Debits. Josephson is sure it did. Pan Am pioneered oceanic flying for the U.S., helped design the "Clippers" to do it (although Martin, Boeing and Sikorsky wailed that they never made money selling them to Trippe) and gave the U.S. domination in South America over Germany's Lufthansa, Air France and Italy's Lati. More important, Pan Am charted the transoceanic routes which became invaluable in war. As Trippe recalled: "Why, sometimes nobody in the State Department, or even the Navy, had ever heard of some of the places we wanted to get to, places now part...
...possible competitors for the postwar air enumerated by Trippe: KLM (Dutch), BOAC (British), Soviet Air Trust, Air France, SILA (Swedish), Trans-Canada Air Lines, South African Airways, Lufthansa (German), LATI (Italian), Dai Nippon (Japan...
...from Axis terror, arrogant diplomats and businessmen from Italy and Germany crowded the narrow streets of her aged, smelly towns. Over the lavish seaside resort of Estoril the wide-winged U.S. Clippers glided down to Lisbon's Tagus River and at the inland Cintra airport planes of the Lufthansa and the British Airways stood side by side. Portugal was open to all warring nations. Neutrality was profitable and, if one did not look too closely, respectable...