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Come vacation time and andyou'll andyou'll andyou'll andyoull you'll youll ' be able to exchange exchangeI exchangethat exchangethat exchangethat I that $1 1 $1785 1785 $ 785 for a one way passage pas passage passage sage eastward & around &round round the theworld theworld theworld world by air alr ' For only a few weeks hence hencehuge , huge , 42 ton clipper slups ships slupswIll shipsWll1 shipswill wIll Wll1 wing wmg out of New York for forSouthampton forSouthampton forSouthampton Southampton , budging brIdgmg bridging thelast the thelast thelast last remaining remammg remalning gap in lfl round roundthe roundthe roundthe the world commercial commerclal aVlatIon aviatiOn avia aVla tIon Twelve short years after afterLmdbergh afterLindbergh afterLindbergh Lmdbergh Lindbergh crouched in theI theSpirit the I ' Spirit of St Louis , , " up to 40 40passengers 40passengers 40passengers passengers will w1l1 stretch theIr theIrlegs theirlegs theirlegs legs in comfort dine dme Im.urI ImurI luuri Im.urIously luuriously luxunously . ously and sleep in III standard berths berthsl.h berthssh berthsvihle \l.h l.h sh \ . Ie Ic the Atlantic surges several severalthousand severalthousand severalthousand thousand feet below It Its s 5 Manhat Manhattan Manhattan Manhattan tan to Europe in m 24 hours arrivingat arnvmgat arnvmg arriving at Southampton in t me to catch thE theImperial theImperial ' ImperIal airways boat for Bombay BombayEast BombayEast BombayEast East Indies Austral a and all pornt point pointeast point'east pointeast ' < east . . 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Acaptam Acaptain A captain captam oversees the theJob thejob thejob Job , while the tile off duly duty crcio creto crew u is urelaxmg isrelaxing urelaxing relaxmg relaxing in m special quarters In Inthe inthe inthe the rear part of oj llie the flight deck decr . . . weather services a job the Umted United UmtedStates UnitedStates UnitedStates States weather bureau has undertak undertaken en by soliciting solicltmg western Atlantic re reports reports reports ports twice a day from 20 to 40 shIpsAn ships shipsAn shipsAn An even greater obstacle was for forelgn foreign toreign elgn eign competition Pan Americanentered Amencan American Amencanentered Americanentered entered a jomt joint agreement with Eng England England England land s Imperial airways to start two twoway twoway twoway way service simultaneously But Buthen Butshen Butwhen \\hen hen shen \ \ Pan American Amencan made ready to tostart tostart tostart start this summer there came camevague camevague camevague vague unenthusiastic answers from fromLondon fromLondon fromLondon London Imperial Impenal s a primary interest mter inter mterest interest est was establishment estabhshment of direct Eng England England England land to Canada aviation before in inaugurat inaugurat inaugural augurat ng England to U S travel travelBut travelBut travelBut But American Amencan indignation mdlgnatlOn reached reachedsuch reachedsuch reachedsuch such heights that Imperial Impenal agreed agreedto agreedto to let Pan American Amencan start the serv servIce service service Ice first with the British Bntlsh companyjoining company companyJommg companyjoining Jommg joining later this summerU summer summerU U S Subsidies SmallerAnother SmallerAnother Smaller SmallerAnother Another problem was the financIal financIalhandicap financialhandicap financialhandicap handicap under tmder which AmerIcan AmerIcanowned Americanowned Americanowned owned airlines alrlmes operate at a dlsad disad dlsadvantage disadvantage disadvantage vantage to their foreign competitors competitorsShould competitorsShould competitorsShould Should German Spanish Spalllsh or Itahan Italian Itahanmterests Italianinterests Italianinterests mterests interests secure operating rIghts nights rIghtsfrom nightsfrom rightsfrom from Portugal permitting permIttmg them to touse touse touse use Lisbon and the Azores as a abase abase abase base they could exert serious senous com corn compebtlOn cornpetition cornpetition pebtlOn petition on the American Amencan company companyGermany companyGermany companyGermany Germany already has valuable aIr aIrI aIrnes air1 I 1 nes in Latin America Amenca and across acrossthe acrossthe acrossthe the South Atlantic and would be beloathe beloathe beloathe loathe to surrender 5upremacy supremacy 5upremacyCompl1catmg supremacyComplicating supremacyComplicating Compl1catmg Complicating the danger Is the dl di dlrect direct direct rect government subsidy plan under underwh underwh wh ch Italian ItaJan ! and German alrlmes airlines airlinesoperate airlinesoperate operate compared with the airmail . - . . - - - - - - . . . - c contracts ntracts onwhIch on -whIch whIch which Ame American a--i a i ; linesmust lines linesmust must depend for their subsidy subsidyIn In Pan American Amencan s case a $53000 53000 $53000subsidy $53 53 $ ? $ 53 000 000subsidy 000subsidy subsidy tor for mail mall is asked tor for each eachtransatlantIc eachtransatlantic eachtransatlantic transatlantIc trip this summer mak makmg making making mg ing a lump federal contnbut contnibut on of of$2 of2 $2758213 2758213 $2 2 $ 758 213 for the 52 junkets planned plannedOne plannedOne plannedOne One justification is that Pan Amer Amerlcan Amerscan Amerlean lcan scan has spent $1 1 ? $ 1 500 000 developingthe developmgthe developmg developing the route Another tar far more lID sm lIDportant smportant important portant is the place of ocean aVla avis aVlatIon avistion aviation tIon m in re estabi establ shing America Amenca s smantune smaritime smaritime mantune maritime commerce Last year the theUnited theUnited theUnited United States maritime mantIme commiSSIon commiSSIonthen commissionthen commissionthen then headed by Joseph P Kennedy Kennedyrecommended Kennedyrecommended Kennedyrecommended I recommended that transatlant c aVI aVIabon aviation avialien I abon ation be developed as the best bestmeans bestmeans means competition competlI competltIon of meet ng foreign competl competi tIon in m this fieldUrge fieldUrge field fieldUrge Urge Passenger PlanesFor PlanesFor Planes PlanesFor For passenger travel the tar far sighted sight sighted sighted ed commission urged a fleet of 18 18flymg 18flying 18flying flymg flying cbpperthree clIpperthree boats . like h.ke hke lute the new clIpper three flying fiymg da daily y carrying carrymg the same sametotal sametotal sametotal total passeneer passenger passenger canacitv ner vr > ar as av a super 1 I ner ncr The planes would cost costonly costonly cosonly only $18 18 $ 000 000 as against $50 50 $ 000 000000 000 for ( or a super liner lmer linerFor lmerFor linerFor For its sponsors the new Atlantic AtlanticservIce Atlanticservice Atlanticservice servIce will culminate culmmate years of work workwhIch workwhich workwhich whIch stirted shrted when young Juan JuanT JuanT'ippe JuanT'lppe JuanTlppe T T'ippe Tippe ' ' was graduated lppe from Yale s sSheffield sSheffield sSheffield Sheffield scientific school 19 years yearsago yearsago yearsago ago More tang biy bly it started when whenTr whenTr whenTr Tr ppe bought three jennies battered bat battered battered tered ships of World war vmtage vintage vmtageand vintageand vintageand and started the Long Island aIr aIrways airways airways ways He was president general generalmanager generamanager generalmanager ] manager and a good pilot |