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When Pan American Airways' Atlantic Clipper crashed at Lisbon last February, killing 24 people, one of the brightest reputations in transport aviation crashed with it. Last week the crash report of the Civil Aeronautics Board marked "official" what airmen already knew: the Atlantic's chief pilot, 50-year-old Captain R.O. D. Sullivan, was responsible for the crash...
...feet, under a 5,000-foot ceiling, the roar of the 314's four big engines suddenly died away to a mutter. The Clipper went into a glide. Almost on the water, Rod Sullivan unaccountably wheeled into a turn, brushed a wing on the water. This was his first bad crash in 101 transatlantic flights...
...performers (including Tamara) were killed in the Lisbon Clipper crash...
...Clipper Ship Days. Said tall, round-faced Frank J. Taylor, ex-Manhattan comptroller and now president of the A.M.M.L: "With our great war-developed plant capacity converted to peacetime needs there will be a surplus of manufactured goods which must be distributed to other parts of the world. It is here that the American Merchant Marine can make its greatest contribution to the postwar economy. It should resume the place it occupied in the old clipper ship days [when nine-tenths of U.S. foreign trade was carried in U.S. bottoms...
...plans and plants: > "Countess" Grace (pronounced "Grawse," she says) Buchanan-Dineen, 34, Canadian-born, who traveled widely in Europe and somehow picked up a hyphenated name and title. FBI claims that she also picked up considerable spy-schooling in Budapest. In 1941 she landed in the U.S. by clipper from Lisbon, eventually turned up in Detroit. Ever since, says FBI, she has been the transmission point for an energetic little spy ring which was trying to get U.S. war-production figures to the Nazis...