Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transport model of the plane, the C-99, expects it to carry 400 com. pletely equipped infantrymen. On the drawing boards is an even larger commercial version which is expected to haul up to 275 passengers. But Convair has no orders for the commercial transport (Model 37) as yet. Pan American Airways has plugged Convair's Model 37 in ads for more than two years. But even Pan Am has placed no solid order...
...Pan Am has agreed to buy such a plane, if it will meet performance specifications which. sound fantastic. To meet them, the plane would have to be powered with gas turbine engines with an equivalent of 5,000 h.p. each. Such engines are still in the drawing board stage...
Airlines a nonstop Miami to Puerto Rico route. The President had ordered the Los Angeles-Mexico City route taken away from Pan Am and given to Western Airlines. A badly flustered CAB issued certificates to both Pan Am and Western. Best break for Pan Am was that it got something it has long wanted, a nonstop route from New York to Puerto Rico...
Puzzle for Pan Am. But this was only a crumb compared to the vast bite the President had taken out of Pan Am's onetime monopoly in Latin America. For the first time, Pan Am has competition from U.S. lines the full length of the rich Latin American travel area...
...President had acted no one seemed to know, least of all CAB. Best guess seemed to be that it was the work of brasshats who have often been miffed by Pan Am's way of doing business. If so, their plan may yet backfire. As long as so many domestic lines are to compete with Pan Am abroad, CAB will be hard put to it to find logical reasons why Pan Am should not compete with them at home, as it wants...