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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were complaints from the Army & the Navy that Pan Am's expenses and accident rate ran too high and that it sometimes gave its own cargoes priority over theirs. But a report by MATS, the combined Army-Navy transport services, this month summed up: "The importance of P.A.A. bases established before the war to the success of the South Atlantic ferrying and transport route cannot be overestimated...
...Capital. For its negotiating at home & abroad, Pan Am has a crack diplomatic corps topped, of course, by Trippe, who is his own persuasive, far-seeing secretary of state. He keeps on excellent terms with 73 nations, running all the way from democracies to dictatorships, by a simple rule: he never ties himself to any political party, and he keeps his political opinions to himself...
...maximum of freedom because, as one politico commented: Trippe has not wasted his time and strength fighting regulation; he has learned to make it work for him. He did well under a Republican administration, did even better under the New Deal. His political fences are always carefully tended. Pan Am Vice President Pryor, onetime Republican national committeeman from Connecticut, knows his way round G.O.P. circles in Washington. On the Democratic side, Pan Am has Vice President J. Carroll Cone, onetime Army pilot and all-around air expert, who campaigned and raised money for Truman before Philadelphia and helped keep...
...this combination, Trippe adds meticulous planning-and an allout attack. Said one bureaucrat: "When you close the door to Pan Am, it comes in the window. And when you close the window, there they are, coming right through the wall." Trippe usually gets what he wants by getting there first...
What entertaining they do is largely confined to aviation people or representatives of nations with which Pan American has air agreements. Adaptable Mrs. Trippe has had to learn to chat intelligently about everything from "chosen instruments" to wing loadings. She learned from the start the importance of the air. On their wedding day in June 1928, while friends gathered on Long Island for the ceremony, Trippe put in a brisk morning's work at the office. He barely made it on time. Said a friend: "Juan's idea of relaxing is to sit up till 2 a.m. talking...