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...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...
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...
...sustained by higher courts, this decision will establish an important precedent. The Supreme Court has always recognized the authority of Congress over all navigable waters, not just steamship lanes. Last week's decision for the first time puts U.S. air on the same basis as U.S. waters, establishing federal authority over the navigable air, not just the airways...
...Transport) and "grandfather rights" on applications for transatlantic routes to Lisbon and the Mediterranean. The deal enabled American Export Lines Inc. to dispose of its control of Amex-which it had to do, under the CAB ruling that ocean carriers are not permitted to operate air routes. But Export Steamship will retain 24% of the airline stock, will probably act as the airline's agents abroad...
Taking office as his city's 29th mayor, San Francisco's shipping tycoon (American Hawaiian-Steamship Co.) and longtime leading citizen Roger Dearborn Lapham, 60, made a promise: "I shall not run for mayor again. I am glad of that pledge because it gives me an inner freedom of mind which I could not otherwise have...