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...beam of its antimonopolistic course in the North Atlantic, CAB turned down Pan American World Airways' bid to keep the whole Pacific to itself, followed the detailed advice of its examiners (TIME, Sept. 10) to split it up with Northwest Airlines, Inc. Biggest pieces...
...still lord of the South Pacific, will thus become the first airline to offer express service from the U.S. around the world* (probable price, around $2,000; time, four days or less). But even then it will have nothing exclusive. Reason: CAB also extended the North Atlantic route of Trans World Airline from Bombay to Shanghai. There T.W.A. will team up with Northwest to offer a joint one-ticket globe-girdling trip that is 2,000 miles shorter and more complete than Pan Am's. (Hustling to get the jump on their new rival, Northwest and T.W.A. announced that...
...CAB included some kind words which said that passengers' fear of the cold, ice and snow of the north Pacific route and the lure of Hawaii as a way-point in the mid-Pacific route may well give Pan Am the advantage. What it mentioned scarcely at all is that the Northwest Passage will cut the flying distance from New York to the Orient by 1,000 miles. Northwest also will do most of its flying overland, where reassuring emergency bases can be built...
Night Life (Tues. 10 p.m., CBS). Cab Galloway, Pearl Bailey and Eddie Condon do some rug-cutting...
...week. The Civil Aeronautics Board, over Pan American's objections, handed a luscious slice to United Air Lines, which during the war flew some 5,000 flights between the U.S. and Hawaii for the Army. United got a San Francisco to Honolulu route paralleling Pan Am's. CAB picked United from the six applicants for the route because a majority of the travelers to Hawaii come from U.S. cities served by United. Thus United will be able to offer them single-carrier service...