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Air lines race for routes in postwar sky fleets
AP Features writer Joan L Springer reports on postwar air travel predictions. Industry leaders foresee huge transports, 125 to 400 passenger ships, and gliders linking cities with stepping-stone seadromes 800 miles apart. Airlines, aircraft makers, and the Civil Aeronautics Board prepare for expanded routes and international service after peace.
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Joan L. Springer
New York
London
Manhattan
Moscow
Africa
Tom M Girdler
Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corporation
Grover Loening
Grumman Aircraft Corporation
Philadelphia
Washington
C. Bedell Monro
Pennsylvania Central Airlines
Civil Aeronautical Board
England
Atlantic
Pacific
America
Pan American Airways
Amazon Jungles
Andes Peaks
Alaska
Civil Aeronautics Board
Northeast Airlines
New England
European
Hawaii
Los Angeles
Pittsburgh
Glenn Martin
Baltimore Aircraft Designers
Aeromonsters
Martin
Girdler