Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Choicest of the new mail links was one between Brownsville, Tex., Houston and San Antonio. Border-town Brownsville is a U. S. terminus for Pan American Airways. Only other regular commercial airline out of Brownsville, connecting with such points as Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Kansas City and Chicago, has been veteran Operator Tom Braniff's bustling Braniff Airways. Capt. Eddie Ricken-backer's Eastern Airlines, whose network of routes over the eastern side of the continent now reaches as far southwest as Houston, has coveted some of neighbor Braniff's exclusive shuttle trade...
Last week Pan American started survey nights for a regular service from Seattle to Juneau, Alaska, last remaining zig in a zigzag line of connecting air routes up from the southernmost capital of the Western Hemisphere (Buenos Aires). The survey plane, a 15-passenger Sikorsky S-43, followed a roundabout route circling out over the ocean, not because she might not have flown over Canada but because Pan American would rather fly over water than land...
Four months ago, a Pan American subsidiary, Pacific Alaska Airways, Inc., started overland service from Juneau to Fairbanks via White Horse, Canada. Pacific Alaska was fashioned in 1932 out of two independent lines, operating round Alaska at random in competition with dog teams...
Because there is ice in Juneau harbor some months of the year, Pan American will use land planes instead of their big Clippers-probably the Boeing 307s, scheduled for delivery this autumn. Also it hopes to get Congress to build landing fields, on the same principle by which railroads got land grants. Chief lobbying point is military: when this last zig is filled in, Nome will be only 24 hours from Washington...
...Pan American has flown some 60,000,000 miles above water-3,000,000 across the Pacific, a considerably more arduous trip (see p. 44) than across the Atlantic. While its rivals are out practicing it thinks it can relax till Boeing finishes the first of six 72-passenger Clippers (biggest transport planes in the world) in Seattle, Wash. Unlike the English Composites and the German Catapults, the Pan American Clipper will heave itself out of the water on its own power. But until it or some other U. S. plane is ready to start a regular schedule, no mail...