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...Musick and her six-man crew. Despite this shattering setback, Pan American stuck stoutly to its plan for a regular San Francisco-New Zealand passenger and airmail service. It ordered six Boeing 314s, biggest plane ever assembled in the U. S. (payload: 40 passengers, 5,000 Ibs. of cargo), earmarked three for its transatlantic service, the rest for its Pacific venture. Because Kingman Reef and Pago Pago, Samoa, stops 2 and 3 on its original route, provided inadequate facilities for the huge Boeings, Pan American constructed new landing bases on Canton Island and Noumea, New Caledonia, otherwise held...
Ships of the U. S. Merchant Marine (see p. 63) picked up the message and put on more steam for port. Ships of France, Italy, Germany and many of England had for the most part already abandoned the high seas-a fact which portended a cargo jam at U. S. ports...
...minutes later passengers & crew solemnly buried the beast at sea, steamed south for Venezuela with the rest of the yowling cargo intact. To Lieut. Burke grateful Captain Nyhoff radioed: "Many thanks for your help...
Next day most local maritime experts blamed the Itacare's, death on insecurely stowed cargo...
Last week when the Ancon made an anniversary trip through the Canal, 155,131 merchantmen of all nations had made the transit carrying more than 500,000,000 tons of cargo, paying an average of $4,000 each, grossing the U. S. $465,000,000 in tolls on an investment of $366,650,000 in ditch digging...