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...impossible. What the hell! They can save a few souls here while they wait." As sailing day came & went, a few missionaries went to look wistfully at the Marine Lynx, still in the battle grey of a wartime transport. Others hopefully kept their bags packed, swapped rumors at the church teas and receptions given for them. The bon voyage mass meeting at San Francisco's Opera House ran off as scheduled; 3,700 turned out to hear Mayor Roger D. Lapham and TIME'S Editor Henry R. Luce wish them well in the Christian task ahead...
Even more attractive were the Pan Am promises based on the Republic Rainbow, a 46-passenger, 400-mile-an-hour-plus transport whose military prototype is now in the air (see cut): 5½-hour coast-to-coast service (best time now: almost ten hours); 2½-hour flights between New York and Miami (present time: 5½ hours). Pan Am does not expect to get the first of the six Rainbows ordered ($1,200,000 apiece) till late next year. But it may take the slow-moving CAB that long to answer Pan Am's shrewd request...
...symbols of the Soviet Union's sudden greatness are powered (as befits a state whose philosophy is materialism in flux) by twin motors, and airborne on the wings of mighty, pulsing transport planes. Fanaticism, like the air, knows no frontiers, and Moscow's big, drab airport (once the Imperial Field of Mars) is now the visible focus of Communism's pretentions to world dominion...
...Maritime Commission sadly reported that no one seemed to want the nation's No. 1 luxury liner, the S.S. America, very much. Finished too late (August 1940) to go into transatlantic service, she made only a few West Indies cruises before the Government converted her into a troop transport. As the West Point, she traveled some 500,000 miles with 350,000 servicemen...
...swinging started over a dozen individualistic tram conductors, members of the small Passenger Workers' Union. They had staunchly refused to join the big Transport & General Workers' Union. Just as the Labor Government lifted wartime restrictions on the transport and mining industries, the big union issued a growling ultimatum to the trolleymen's employer, the London Passenger Transport Board: either the twelve must be fired, or all of London's buses would stop. The Board capitulated. But the Passenger Workers' Union forthwith prepared to fight for an injunction against the men's dismissal. Unless...