Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With no fuss or feathers, Pan American Airways sent one of its new 74-passenger Boeing Clippers across to England last week. Captained by big, blond Harold Edward Gray, carrying a crew of eleven and nine technical experts as passengers, the big 314 stopped at Horta in the Azores, then went on to Lisbon, Portugal. From there it was a straight shot across Fascist Spain to the next stop, Marseille, but Captain Gray headed north to Bordeaux, then swung across France to Marseille. Unfavorable winds, said he with a poker face, prevented the flight across Spain...
This week the Clipper lay at her moorings at Southampton, England, ready for the return flight. Purpose of the trip, which may be the last before Pan-Am begins regular service to Europe this summer : to check technical facilities, including radio direction-finding equipment at Lisbon and Marseille...
Heading the list of guests at Table 1, The United States and Latin American Relations, is Lopez Cumarejo, the Colombian Ambassador to the United States. Also scheduled to attend and Dr. William Langer, Counsellor of the Pan-American Union in Washington; Shelden Chapin, of the Division of American Republics of the Department of State; and Colonel A. L. Palmer, of the Chile-American Association...
Commissioner Splawn of the Interstate Commerce Commission is slated for Table 4, The Government and Transportation Problems, as are John Cooper, vice-president of Pan-American Airways, and John Dickinson, Solicitor of the Pennsylvania Railroad...
Regarding your article under Transport in the March 20 issue of TIME in which you give Pan American's new air fares San Francisco to Honolulu and San Francisco to Hong Kong, you say "comparative boat fares $215, $425." The minimum first class fares on the Matson Line from San Francisco to Honolulu on the Lurline, Mariposa, and Monterey (in a twin-bedded, inside, double room with private toilet) is $125. Matsonia fares are the same but minimum accommodations have no private toilet...