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...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...
...which his prime job had been to sell Fokker planes. (Since the withdrawal of stormy "Tony"' Fokker, General has quit building the Fokker line.) Hainer Hinshaw had headquarters in Washington where he was one of aviation's most potent lobbyists. He has joined United Air Lines. Vice President Ricken-backer's headquarters will be in Manhattan but his duties may take him frequently to the Capital...
...tunnel of Ricken, in Switzerland, last week, a freight train stopped, filled the air with dense, deadly carbon monoxide gas; nine railroad workers, trapped, suffocated...