Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Airways' claim to be the indispensable international airline was threatened last week. The Civil Aeronautics Board opened hearings on applications for new air routes to Latin America. Promptly eleven airlines and five steamship companies appeared, prepared to prove that they should be allowed to share the southern sky lanes over which, for 17 years, Pan Am clippers have droned in almost lone supremacy...
Besides his salvage business, Captain John Roen owns the Roen Steamship Co. and its six ships (tugs and barges). He also owns half the stock and is president of the Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., which is now building $10,000,000 worth of retrievers and refrigerator ships a year for the Army & Navy. Salvaging grosses Roen $500,000 a year...
...plans to spend some $52,000,000 to expand its Latin American routes. And Juan Trippe stirred the earth-bound citizenry with news: Pan Am expects to slash flying time from the U.S. to Latin America by approximately two-thirds and will cut fares even below the present steamship rates. Examples: the fare from Manhattan to Rio de Janeiro will be reduced from $491.35 to $175; Manhattan to Buenos Aires from $561.35 to $190.50; Los Angeles to Buenos Aires from...
Other airline operators, as usual, were less optimistic. Privately they groused that Pan Am's plans were a "pipe dream," that the rates were much too low. They pointed out that CAB opens hearings Sept. 18 on applications of some dozen other U.S. airlines and steamship lines for Latin American routes to cut into Pan Am's virtual monopoly; that Operator Trippe may be merely trying to choke them off before the hearings even start...
Italian flags adorned most buildings, Allied bunting fluttered from a few cornices. The "Oltremare" travel agency displayed two large colored posters blithely advertising the United States Steamship Lines...