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...steamship) Lines Inc. organized an airline subsidiary in 1937, and announced it was going into the transatlantic trade, the U. S. flying business peeled its eye for developments. For tough, pioneering Pan American Airways, operating around South America and across the Pacific, was getting ready to start service to Lisbon on an Atlantic run. And in all its adventurous pathfinding, Pan Am had had no U. S. competitor to worry about...
...Sweden, Denmark and The Netherlands, several persons convicted of selling information about ship movements and defense works to one or other of the warring powers were sentenced last week as spies. Last fortnight, the French destroyer Forbin dramatically overhauled the Portuguese steamer Lima off Lisbon to lay hands on one Lola Schroeter, 20, wanted in Paris on spy charges. But World War II's greatest spy hunt was under way last week in Great Britain, pressed by Scotland Yard, the Army and Navy intelligence services and a special division of the Home Office...
Last week Otto, as the "Duc de Bar," flew from Lisbon to the U. S. on "a pleasure tour." He was reported to have made only one business appointment (J. P. Morgan) and to have accepted only one invitation (from the refugee Legitimist Austro-American League). He rather hopes to meet Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He said all he wanted was some sober fun, but his sympathizers, consisting principally of a few threadbare exiles who hang out in a Manhattan restaurant with a zither for Habsburg atmosphere, thought he would: 1) drum up sentiment for his Danubian Federation...
...empire, the most spectacular and successful international airline in the world. Spanning 53 countries and colonies in both hemispheres, it owes as much to Juan Trippe's genius for a tough diplomatic bargain as it does to his uncompromising insistence on operating perfection. From Lisbon to Hong Kong, from Nome to Buenos Aires, its 63,000 miles of airways, its 263 bases, run like clockwork. Without Trippe's astute bar gaining in foreign capitals, without his engineer's supervision of technical development, it might today be no more impressive than Britain's conservative Imperial Airways...
...expedition started last August 28, as the eight members of the expedition and four others sailed aboard the Capitana, 147 foot ketch named after Columbus's ship on his third voyage of discovery. Horta in the Azores and Lisbon, Portugal were the first ports of call. In Lisbon the party met the second ship of the expedition, the Mary Otis, a 45 foot ketch and sailed on to Cadiz and Madeira...