Word: transamerican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...none of the other lines shall compete with it. In its imperialistic spread Pan American's horizons are limited only by international permission and good business. Already Pan American has a network of lines south from Miami and Texas, roping the Caribbean and South America. Few weeks ago Transamerican Airlines bowed itself out of the North Atlantic field, leaving P. A. A. to work out its projected air passage to Europe via Greenland and Iceland. Last week P. A. A. acquired another strategic outpost-Alaskan Airways, comprising 2,500 mi. of lines. The future was too obscure...
...Greenland, make further studies. Hence last week Explorer Watkins sailed from Copenhagen again, this time as chief of the Pan American Airways East Greenland Expedition. At the same time another party was en route from the U. S., the Michigan-Pan American Airways Greenland Expedition. Also last week Transamerican Airlines, which had begun tentative surveys of the northern air passage to Europe (TIME, April 25), surrendered to Pan American its active interest in the route, including an exclusive concession in Iceland. Apparent reason: Pan American is better geared by structure and experience for international enterprise, has working arrangements with...
...Unlike Transamerican, which sent Pilot Parker D. ("Shorty") Cramer and a radioman to fly the proposed route?and lost them?Pan American did not equip its expeditions with aircraft. For a year they will study weather, hunt for landing fields. Watkins' party will maintain two bases about 70 mi. apart near Angamagsalik, just south of the Arctic Circle. The Michigan group, which is associated with the International Polar Year research, will make its main camp about 100 mi. above Uperniski, several hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle. It will forge across the interior of the Greenland...
...American was also making news last fortnight far in the North. It announced that its summer service from Boston to Halifax would this year be extended, if mail contracts are forthcoming, to turbulent St. Johns, Newfoundland. Cooperating with Transamerican Airlines Corp. (operating between Cleveland and Chicago), Pan American will push surveys and preliminary research this summer in a drive to span the Atlantic by way of Greenland, Iceland, the Faeroes and Shetland Islands to England and the Continent. Last summer Pilot Parker Cramer was drowned in the Atlantic as he was completing an experimental flight over this route...
Last fortnight Denmark refused Transamerican Airlines concessions for bases on its Eskimo colony, Greenland (TIME, April 18). That this implied a breakdown of the project was denied by company officials; negotiations would be continued, they said. But the Parliament of the Kingdom of Iceland (whose king is big King Christian X of Denmark) did not refuse to grant a 75-year franchise to Transamerican when Judge Gudmunder Crimson of Rugby, N. Dak., who in 1930 represented his State at the millennial of the founding of the Icelandic parliament, intervened. Judge Grimson went to Copenhagen to plead with the King...