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When American Export (steamship) Lines Inc. organized an airline subsidiary in 1937, and announced it was going into the transatlantic trade, the U. S. flying business peeled its eye for developments. For tough, pioneering Pan American Airways, operating around South America and across the Pacific, was getting ready to start service to Lisbon on an Atlantic run. And in all its adventurous pathfinding, Pan Am had had no U. S. competitor to worry about...
...part of Export's application, Examiner Leasure deferred an answer. Overruled was a request that the steamship line be specifically authorized to hang on to control of the air line. Reason: That question can be decided by CAA later...
Lights Out in Europe (Kline). In the war-sultry May of 1939 a short, heavyset, peaceful-looking young American bought steamship tickets for Europe and began to pack his motion picture camera equipment. He smelled fighting...
...globe-girdling Pan American Airways. And one of ATCO's chief stockholders-Manhattan Bankers Lehman Bros.-has a partner, Robert Lehman, on Pan Am's board. What makes this interesting to flying men is that Lehman Bros, owns the largest single interest (38.7%) in American Export (steamship) Lines, which controls American Export Airlines. And American Export Airlines is currently after a CAA authorization to compete with Pan Am on the Atlantic...
...what trouble followed Sept. 1929 few U. S. citizens need to be told. Mr. Allen tells it with enough street-corner detail to suggest its charms. In 1930-31, for instance, steamship lines began running week-end cruises, or saturnalia, outside the Twelve Mile Limit. Apple salesmen shivered on wintry corners. Free wheeling was added to necking as a thing to do with cars. Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries ("Don't take it serious, it's too mysterious"*) expressed the nonchalant response to Depression. Bobby Jones had a Manhattan triumph after winning the British Amateur...