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...B.O.A.C.-managed corporation, with a sprinkling of steamship-company money, to operate routes to the U.S., the Far East and the Commonwealth...
...were its only reader. So right were his news judgments that the wire services for many years telegraphed the Times's front-page news-play to clients for guidance. Some of Van Anda's news decisions are classic: he took a one-paragraph report that the steamship Titanic was in trouble, expanded it into columns of type-while other Manhattan papers played the story down, and at least one pooh-poohed the whole thing because the Titanic was "unsinkable." Van Anda perceived that General Ludendorffs big offensive on March 21, 1918 was the beginning...
...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...
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...