Word: lufthansa
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...spurred British naval and military forces to action. Fresh proof that once-helpless Persia, now aggressive, heavily-soldiered Iran, could stand manfully up to her former master came early this month. A giant, trimotored Junkers low-wing monoplane, with swastikas gleaming on tail, roared down to Teheran airport, inaugurating Lufthansa's new commercial airline between isolated, mountainous Iran and the Near East and Europe...
...Iran's slower, often impassable dirt mountain roads. Better still, they had missed having to put up for a night in one of Iran's insect-ridden rest houses. What the plane's arrival meant to Middle Eastern diplomats, however, was that the German-controlled Lufthansa had just won a significant battle with British Imperial Airways over flying concessions...
...South America and across the Pacific, Pan American Airways proved to itself that "the bigger the airplane is the more efficient it can be made." The P. A. A. began to eye the Atlantic and ran into the toughest competition in its history. Europe's crack lines, Deutsche Lufthansa, Air France and Imperial Airways-all richer than P. A. A. because their Governments directly subsidize them-had plans for the same ocean. But none had over-ocean passenger planes. Three years ago P. A. A. called for ships that would fly the route, pay their way. Last week Seattle...
Engaged. Prince Louis Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, 30, heir apparent of Crown Prince Friedrich William of Germany, one-time automechanic in a Detroit Ford plant, now employed by .Lufthansa German airline; to Princess Kyra Kirillowna, 28, daughter of Russian Grand Duke Cyril; in Doom, The Netherlands...
Over Sea. From July to end of October U. S.-owned Pan American Airways, British-owned Imperial Airways, Ltd. and German-owned Deutsche Lufthansa have flown big, new airplanes 26 times over the North Atlantic, piled up 90,000 miles of ocean flight. Weakest of nations in 1937's international bid for future U. S.-Europe air business has been France. Following the abandonment of the Paris-sponsored mass race over the Atlantic in May and the failure of Portugal to reply to France's request for permission to use the Azores, not one French airplane attempted...