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Lady Louis Mountbatten Clippered from New York for Lisbon to join husband Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten in London after four months of "thank-you" work here for the Red Cross. Daughter...
While the British Government investigrated, the London Evening Standard broached the whole unsavory subject of plane priorities, said: "One hears of Sir Samuel Hoare's butler, Lady Reading's secretary-chauffeuse, the eleven-year-old son of the Marquess of Queensberry . . . all taking up space [in the Lisbon Clipper] . . . causing important British and American citizens to be delayed at Lisbon...
...Portugall, along the river Tagus, & about Lisbon, certaine it is, that when the westwind blowes, the mares set up their tailes, and turne them full against it, and so conceive that genitall aire in steed of naturall seed: in such sort, as they become great withall, and quicken in their time, & bring forth foles as swift as the wind, but they live not above three yeres...
...short time Pan Am will continue to fly via Lisbon, two of its three weekly flights continuing from there to Foynes (4,590 miles). Later the Clippers will fly the northern route (3,067 miles) with a stop in Newfoundland. Between Foynes and England, Britain's Overseas line will operate a shuttle-a shorter and speedier haul than its present 1,100-mile wartime semicircle between Lisbon and England...
...musts for transatlantic flying. Last week it proudly showed newsmen one near-finished $700,000 flying boat, the hulls of two sister boats abuilding in United Aircraft's Vought-Sikorsky plant. Besides these, Am Ex has CAB approval of its proposed New York-to-Lisbon run; the State Department has guaranteed landing rights in Lisbon; it has leased for 40 years (and $1,400,000) hangar space at La-Guardia Airport; it has trained personnel...