Word: round-the-world
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...American clipper America, which had flown off 13 days and 3 hours earlier from LaGuardia Field into the east, returned from the west last week. It had flown around the world, inaugurating the first round-the-world air service. Pan Am will operate two regular flights a week-one west from San Francisco, one east from New York. Domestic airlines will complete the transcontinental gap in the circle. Globe-girdling fare...
...found time for everyone. Round-the-world Flyer Milton Reynolds and crew (see BUSINESS) came by to receive the President's congratulations and give him a Reynolds ball-point pen. Democratic bigwigs dropped in to talk politics. Said Jersey City's Boss Frank Hague: "Everything's fine-everything's lovely...
Last month, Reynolds decided to break Howard Hughes's round-the-world record of 91 hours, 14 minutes. He bought an A26 Douglas attack bomber, removed some 8,000 Ibs. of armor plate, crammed the plane full of gas tanks. He hired William P. Odom, a wartime transatlantic ferry pilot and China "Hump" flyer, to fly trie plane, and T. Carroll Sallee as engineer. Reynolds himself, who holds a private pilot's license, was "navigator," a euphemistic way of spelling passenger...
Like a child about to go on his first picnic, the American President Lines could hardly contain itself. On April 16, it exuberantly announced, it will resume round-the-world cruises. They will be in the old luxurious "Dollar Line" tradition (but at a new price of $2,213.75, including Government tax, an increase of almost...
...World. With it, ambitious Jack Frye had another dream; he hoped to make T.W.A. the No. 1 round-the-world airline. But erratic, unpredictable Howard Hughes began to balk at the money Frye was spending. Frye tried to persuade Hughes that overseas expansion would pay off in the end, urged him to get new capital for T.W.A. Frye even lined it up (for example, a $100,000,000 credit line at Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co.). But Hughes would have none of it. He was not entirely sold on round-the-world expansion and he was leary of losing...