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...Matson steamship lines want to fly. Matson Navigation Co. applied to CAB last week for permission to fly passengers and freight over its ship routes (Hawaii, South Seas, Australia and New Zealand). Matson also announced that it has spent $100,000 for 43 acres adjacent to the San Francisco airport...
This picture of the plane pre-empting the passenger traffic of the steamship shortly after the war was drawn by Edward Pearson Warner, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, now vice chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. The occasion was the 31st Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture (as published, 92 pages long, illustrated with 23 charts), delivered by Warner at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London...
...military cargo flights across the North Atlantic (TIME, Dec. 14). Now Northeast wants to fly passengers, mail and express freight over 22,866 route miles between Boston, Moscow and at least nine other European cities: "Boston to Moscow in 18 hours ... at [fares] no greater than third-class transatlantic steamship fare." Other applications...
...credit side, the foreign powers brought China its first steamship, its first locomotive, modern science and modern education. They established a postal service, did a superb job of clearing away navigational hazards and charting the Chinese coasts...
...will temporarily flatten airline earnings, most operators are not worried, feel confident their profits will be quickly regained when they get enough planes and equipment to handle all available business. Meanwhile the airlines will put themselves in a better spot to lure still more traffic from the rail and steamship lines...