Pan Am: The Wings of Imperialism
Pan Am is the most politically oriented airline in the country. It is still widely considered a private instrument of U.S. foreign policy. When brush fire wars loom, it is usually Pan Am that is...
...A quick look below at the sketches of ten of Pan Am's twenty-one directors reveals it is well endowed with men who have the right connections: former secretaries of the U.S...
...the same year he left the FAA (1965) he became a director of Pan Am and was elected president in May 1968...
...In the fall of 1970 Donald Nixon flew to Caracas and met with two high cabinet officials...
...and Panorama Economico Latinoamericano, No...
...The company filled a claim with the State Department for $5.4 million but has collected nothing to date...
...His co-chairman was George Ball, former Undersecretary of State and a partner in Lehman Brothers, Pan Am's leading investment banker...
...currently works out of a large suite at One Rockefeller Plaza where he acts as a broker of large Middle East oil concessions...
...Pan Am, however is still a major power in air travel to Latin America carrying 14 percent of all U.S...
...In-Flight Services is the world's largest independent supplier of food to airlines...
...At one point, in 1945, Trippe went so far as to conceive a bill that would have created an official U.S...
...Though Pan Am may take losses on these routes for the first few years, it is quite clear that the airline's executives and directors see great future potential...
...Information Agency Library, the Pan Am ticket office is usually next in line...
...And we still fly to such expected places as Iondon, Rome, Paris Rio, Honolulu, Sydne/, andlT<yo...
...Roosevelt urged Trippe to initiate a hotel renovation and construction program in Latin America...
...Pan Am's share of the Pacific and the Transatlantic markets during the same period fell from 100 percent to 30 percent and from 32 percent to 18 percent, respectively...
...THOMIAS WATSON, JR...
...President of Pepsico and a director of Pepsi-Co!a, Sinclair Oil, Alaska Airlines, Frito-Lay (the food company), and the Dayton International Speedway...
...bank with the largest overseas branch network and one of Pan Am's leading creditors, (his cousin, David Rockefeller, is chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, First National City's chief "rival...
...When brush fire wars loom, it is usually Pan Am that is called upon first to divert jets from regular runs to evacuate American nationals in danger...
...In 1929 it was the Caribbean...
...9 As revealed in Braniff's testimony Pan Am's preeminent position in Latin American commercial aviation rested not only on its extensive route network but also on its ownership and control of major airports, terminals and communications facilities and its ownership of several airlines...
...Hes been with Pan Am ever since, working with men equally dedicated to opening the world to air travel...
...r. In Illn we fly to 12 2 cities in8 2 lands on al 6 continents leaving from 16 cities across the country...
...a director of Scott Paper Co., IBM World Trade Corp...
...a trustee of Brown University and the California Institute of Technology...
...In Nevada he visited Senator Howard Cannon (D Nev...
...4 For more than 16 years it has operated the Air Force facilities at Cape Kennedy and the Eastern *Test Range tracking stations in the Caribbean and Atlantic which are connected with the Cape...
...Forbes magazine of February 1, 1971 carries an extensive article on Marriott...
...Agency for International Development (AID), 'an Am provides technical assistance to Air Vietnam, the South Vietnamese government-owned airline...
...Its fleet of 177 aircraft serve 119 cities in 81 countries...
...For CAB Chairman Secor Browne's "cozy relationship" with Pan Am and how he cast a key vote for the airline in a recent award of Micronesia routes see Jack Anderson's column in The Washington Post, January 28, 1971...
...a director of the Bank of America (the nation's largest commercial bank), Chrysler Corp., Whirlpool Corp., New York Urban Coalition, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR, the elite foreign policy lobby) and the United Fund of Greater New York: also, a trustee of the Aerospace Corp...
...Ambassador to France in 1970...
...Revista Tamanaco, July/August 1969) . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ l Other incidents of Pan Am power-plays have been reported throughout Latin America...
...friends of President Nixon and advisors of past presidents...
...past chairman of the First National City Bank of New York, the U.S...
...Two weeks after the visit Ara Services, a Marriott competitor, was forced to suspend its operations at Caracas International Airport...
...Henry Ford II being welcomed to the IHC's Hotel Tamanaco by Eduardo Olasolo, the hotel's Resident tlanager, and Manuel Arriandiaga, General Manager...
...Also a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Institution...
...6- 14 - PAN AM's INTER-CONTINENTAL HOTELS (IHC) Inter-Continental Hotels is currently engaged in the most far-reaching expansion in its 24-year history...
...3 Trippe agreed, particulary since the airline had long felt that better accomodations at its terminal cities in Latin America would help boost its passenger and cargo bookings and certainly any increase in investor interest in Latin America would boost the airline's passenger, cargo and mail business (at the time Pan Am was the only scheduled U.S...
...government-financed Cuban airlift in 1965 and is the only U.S...
...Buenos Aires, Rio, and Lima...
...In 1969 Pan Am received $167 million in Defense contracts making it the 39th largest contractor with tile Pentagon...
...during that week he lunched with the top editors of the Washington Post...
...The connection between the Donald Nixon visit and the suspension of Ara operations is difficult to document...
...whose chairman, Thomas Watson, sits on Pan Am's board...
...airline to fly to such unampected places as Mcow, Helsinki, Johansburg, Bali and Maracaibo...
...8. For a recent summary of Pan Am's Eastern European routes see The New York Times, March 26, 1971...
...And y our planes have grown bigger and faster and more efficient, weve been able to ( I make world travel a reality for anyone with a two veek vacation and (Z) lower fares to the point where you can afford to take that vacation...
...By 1930 we were designing our own radio equipment...
...u ask whaAt to eat...
...Curacao Nicaragua...
...As the airline comes under increasing international competition from such giants as KLM, Japan Air Lines, BOAC and Air France, it is beginning to pay the price for developing exclusively as an international airline...
...nationals, such as Cyprus in 1964 and Lebanon in 1967...
...Pan Am Public Relations Department Pan American Building New York, New York World's Largest Air Cargo Carrier Worlds Most Experienced Airline FOOTNOTES 1. The Wall Street Journal, March 19, 1971...
...In 1935 we flew west over the Pacific and opened half the sorld...
...airline abroad...
...radio r:a!i...
...served as President Johnson's chief negotiator for a new Panama Canal treaty and as his unofficial envoy to Arab governments...
...a member of the Institute of International Education (for more on IIE, see NACLA Newsletter, Vol...
...Barranquilla Colombia...
...Chicago & Southern Airlines, now a part of Delta Airlines, asked Pan Am for permission to use Camaguey as an alternate landing field on its Jamaican route...
...Information on Pan Am's ownership of airlines and airports was taken from many sources, including: The Wall Street Journal, September 8, 1970 (Costa Rica...
...However, it appears the incident was more than just coincidence...
...Pan Am, Vietnam & Defense According to its 1969 annual report Pan Am provides the major portion of the civil airlift of mail, materiel and personnel in support of the U.S...
...Pan Am's board of directors (see box) and its chief executive officer lineups reflect the close ties the airline maintains with government agencies that decide its routes, subsidies and mail and military contracts...
...currently chairman of the National Liberty Co., an insurance firm, and a member of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education...
...And then.in 1947 we put it all together and made the first scheduled passenger flight ever to circle theglobe...
...directors and partners of the countries most prestigious banks, insurance companies, and invesment houses...
...3. The Wall Street Journal, April 14, 1964...
...Lima Puerto Rico...
...Ara was not informed why by Venezuelan officials...
...Pan Am agreed but only if C & S paid a $36,000 fee, forcing C & S to utilize another field near Havana and necessitating an extra 1,800 pound fuel load...
...7 Pan Am assigns more aircraft to the Pentagon's Civil Air Transport Division than any other airline...
...The airline's military contracts include a variety of other activities...
...11 In another case, in 1956, when a congressional anti-trust subcommittee asked the Pentagon to declassify some documents relating to reports Pan Am had received exclusive title to some airport facilities built in Latin America with government funds during World War II, the documents were never made available...
...1 Reflecting the ambitions of its founder, Juan Trippe, who wanted to make the airline the U.S...
...During World War II Pan Am constructed air force bases in 16 foreign countries and designed air routes for Allied forces in North Africa...
...9, December, 1967), the Business Council, and a trustee of the Carnegie Institution...
...For example, in October 1943 CAB hearings Juan Trippe revealed Pan Am in 1929 had secretly purchased an interest in the German-owned pioneer Colombian airline SCADTA...
...6. For more on Pan Am's contract with the AEC and NASA in Nevada see Business Week, June 8, 1963...
...17, 1968 No study of tourism in Latin America would be complete without a look at Pan American World Airways-the first airline to fly to Latin America--and its subsidiary, Intercontinental Hotels (IHC), the first major hotel chain to build in the region...
...For example, during the Dominican Republic rebellion in April 1965 Americans gathered in the IHC Embajador on the outskirts of Santa Domingo and during the Jordanian civil war in September 1970 nationals of many countries sought refuge inside the IHC Amman...
...The Wall Street Journal, March 19, 1970...
...airline abroad...
...He accused Pan Am of locking airport gates to prevent fuel trucks from reaching his plane and claimed that Mexican troops had to be called to open the gates so the trucks could refuel the Braniff plane, which was on its way to 4erida...
...and Charles Lindbergh, who made the first solo transatlantic flight in 1927, the year Pan Am was founded...
...director of Chrysler Corp., Metropolitan L fe Insurance Co., Bermuda Properties, Ltd., and the Liberian Development Corp...
...However, there is evidence to suggest that Donald Nixon has been more successful at his new post at Marriott where he has been traveling around the globe trying to convince airlines to switch their food contracts to his new employer...
...We were also hacking airports our of the jungles of South America to open an entire continent to air travel...
...Bogota Dominican Republic...
...It was during Stettinius' term as Secretary of State that President Franklin Roosevelt approached Trippe about the shortage of first class hotel accomodations in Latin America...
...There world tost expien dine.- 18 - Marriott, Nixon & Tourism J. Willard Marriott, Sr., the 70-year old chairman of the Marriott Corp., has been close to every Republican president since 1928: Hoover, Eisenhower, and now Nixon, his long-time friend...
...Marriott's access to the present administration is further assured by the appointment of F. Donald Nixon, the President's 56-year old brother, to a specially created vice presidency at Marriott in January, 1970...
...In times of crisis it has diverted planes from regular routes for special evacuations of U.S...
...During the fifties, when his brother was vice president, Donald attempted to market a "nixonburger...
...It calculates that the overseas travel market's next big push will be in Latin America, and as that market expands so will Marriott...
...In fact, the company claims it has been losing money on its Latin American routes over the last three years and has petitioned the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) for permission to drop some of its less profitable runs in the region and open more lucrative routes--especially in the Caribbean...
...past governor of Pennsylvania (1963-67) and past candidate for the Republican presidential nomination...
...During the 1940's Pan Am operated the airport facilities in Camaguey, Cuba...
...in 1927...
...1, No...
...FRANK STANTON (1967)- President and director of Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS...
...Buenos Aires Colombia...
...Another Senate, friend was Owen Brewster, Republican Senator from Maine, who, because of his frequent proselytizing for the airline, was sometimes referred to as "the Senator from Pan Am...
...In addition to airline catering facilities, Marriott erected a hotel in Acapulco and opened a cafeteria at San Juan's international airport...
...However, any reduction in Vietnam war business will come about gradually, in the eyes of Pan Am officials...
...Waggoner...
...Since 1968 the Washington, D.C...
...the well-entrenched chairman of the powerful Senate Commerce Committee on the West Coast...
...His wife, Alice, also has held top fiscal posts in the Republican party...
...new airlines came into existence and wanted a piece of the pie...
...Air-line officials turned off all runway lights and re:ied to answer U.S...
...IHC HOTELS IN LATIN AIEr J CA * NAME OF HOTEL WITH NUMBER OF ROOMS CITY Argentina...
...Wealwayshave...
...ROBERT B. ANDERSON (1966)- As Treasury Secretary (1957-61) was the most powerful figure for domestic affairs in Eisenhower's second administration...
...since leaving the Treasury he has been a limited partner in the prestigious Wall Street banking house of Loeb, Rhoades & Co...
...travel agent...
...Since it began the flights in 1968, it has ferried over half a million troops out of such battle zones as Cam Rahn Bay, Saigon, and Danang to Asian "recreational" capitals such as Bangkok, Tokyo, and Hong Kong...
...previously had been Secretary of the Navy (1953-54) and Assistant Secretary of Defense (1954-55...
...The new drive plans to build 14 new hotels in 12 countries, bolstering IHC's world total to 67 hotels -- a big jump from its 11 hotels in Latin America in 1961...
...Today the revenues from its Latin American operations account for only a small portion of the airline's earnings...
...executives of the nation's leading mass media empires...
...Represented President Nixon on special missions to the Middle East and Europe in 1968...
...Ponce Uruguay...
...head of the Subcommittee on Aviation...
...PAN AM'S PATRIOTISM In the course of reaching and maintaining its preeminent position in international commercial aviation, Pan Am has developed an extremely close liaison with the government bodies which affect its destiny-especially the White House, Congress and the CAB...
...For example, executive positions at Pan Am were recently filled by the former head of the Federal Aviation Administration (Najeeb Halaby, who became president in 1968), the former commander-inchief of the North American Air Defense Command (Gen...
...It was the first airline chosen to run the U.S...
...air traffic in South America (down from 50 percent just after World War II) and 38 percent of the traffic in the Caribbean down from 90 percent...
...The airline also provides special services to the government in its war operations...
...Military charter business now accounts for 12 percent of operating revenues...
...One month after arriving at Marriott, American Airlines switched their contract from Ogden Foods, Don Nixon's old firm...
...The $500,000 contract had been held by Ogden for five years...
...The solution, it figures, is two-fold: acquire domestic "feeder routes" for its international runs and at the same time find a merger partner among one of the major domestic carriers--Eastern, United,American or TWA...
...Its the naon we were offering menu selection, serving hot meals, showing movies and providing other creature comforts long before the others caught on...
...Seven years later, during the 1956 Senate antitrust hearings Trippe refuted the charges claiming the airline responsible for operating the Veracruz facilities was a Mexican airline, not Pan Am...
...based corporation has acquired In-Flight Service facilities in the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Mexico, Santiago...
...1. For more on the Donald Nixon-Marriott story see the Los Angeles Times, September 9, 1970...
...2 Still another influential government official to whom the airline had easy access was Secretary of State (194445) Edward Stettinius, Jr., Juan Trippe's brother-inlaw...
...According to the 1969 Pan Am annual report, IHC plans to construct or is in the process of building additional hotels in Buenos Aires, Rio, Medellin (Colombia), Ciudad Guyana (Venezuela), and Kingston, Montego Bay and Ocho Rios (Jamaica...
...NOTE: IHC's Hotel Nacional in Cuba was expropriated in 1960...
...Mexico City Netherlands Antilles...
...For example, Pan Am answered an urgent Pentagon request during the 1968 NLF Tet offensive and diverted 18 of its 707's for emergency airlift use...
...a past director of .h-e 1rsrican Institute for I 0- 17 - Free Labor Development (AIFLD), a U.S...
...A Union and Southern flight (a nonscheduled airline) attempted to land at the main Dominican airport which was controlled by Pan An...
...airline the government has approved for flying to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (considered one of the great potential markets of the future...
...Compania Cubana de Aviacion (Pan Am began selling its ownership to the Batista dictatorship in 1955--it also owned the Havana airport...
...Pan Am is proud of its "service in the national interest!'--service for which it is repaid not only in cash but also in exclusive route awards and prestige...
...policy or action, burn down the U.S...
...Its main expansion programs are centered in Latin America...
...As the box below indicates, part of its service in the national interest has made it a major factor in providing air services for the Southeast Asian war...
...Business Week, Feb...
...Council of the International Chamber of Commerce (whose president is Arthur K. Watson, brother of Pan Am board member Thomas Watson) and a trustee of the National Urban League...
...For more on SCADTA and Pan Am see The New York Times, October 6, 1943...
...Laurence Kuter, named executive vice-president in 1968) and the former State Department deputy assistant secretary for transportation and telecommunications (Frank Loy, named senior vice-president for international affairs in August 1970...
...An Influential Republican, close to Presidents Hoover and Eisenhower, Bill Marriott Sr...
...began career as an attorney for the estate of Texas millionaire oilman W.T...
...Avianca (as of 1967 Pan Am held 38 percent of the capital stock): COUNTRY I - I- 15 - -- Panagra (Pan Am and W.R...
...nationals not only fly out of crisis spots on Pan Am, they also seek refuge inside Pan Am IHC hotels...
...10 Not all the airline's holdings are easily traceable...
...Trippe, however, failed to mention the Mexican airline was a Pan Am subsidiary...
...A couple of things...
...Panair do Brasil (Pan Am sold its remaining 30 percent interest in 1961] -- Lineas Aereas Costarricenses (Pan Am sold its remaining 22 percent interest in September 1970...
...For example, he was head of the Second National Convocation on the Challenge of Building Peace which sponsered "the first mass meeting on U.S.-Soviet cooperation" in April 1970...
...international flag carrier, Pan Am is currently the largest exclusively international carrier in the world (it has no domestic routes...
...But still, the nmt important thing we ffer you is our experience, our knowledge, our techology...
...Nor was Halaby ignoring the media...
...For these men who travel in and out of the highest levels of government and business, the distinctions between the two are barely discernable...
...Pan Am also instituted special "rest and recuperation" flights for troops in Vietnam...
...In addition the airline operates over 50 hotels around the world through IHC, operates missile facilities at Cape Kennedy, and acts as the exclusive Western Hemisphere sales agent for Falcon business jets...
...Maracaibo Plaza Hotel (400) El Prado IHC (200) Tequendama (400) Embajador (310) IHC Quito (243) IHC El Salvador (210) Reforma (300) IHC Curacao (125) IHC Managua (208) Gran Hotel Bolivar (350) IHC Ponce (310) Victoria Plaza (359) Tamanaco (400) Hotel del Lago (250) Pan Am is also a special contractor with the State Department's Agency for International Development (AID) providing management and technical training to Third World airlines...
...And people began to take flying seriously...
...Alfred Gruenther, former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (195356...
...CYRUS VANCE (1969)- Past General Counsel of the Defense Department, (1961-62), Secretary of the Army (1962-64) and Deputy Secretary of Defense (1964-67...
...And all it takes to be on yur way is a visit to your Pan Am...
...DONALD M. KENDALL (1971)- One of Nixon's closest associates (apparently added to the board with this in mind...
...The roadside stand eventually grew into Hot Shoppes, the forerunner of today's Marriott Corp., a diversified food giant with assets of over $300 million...
...Its first route was the 110-mile government subsidized mail route between Miami and Cuba...
...the one in the cockpit...
...During CAB hearings in 1949 Thomas Braniff, then president of the Texas-based airline bearing his name, accused Pan American of interfering with a scheduled Braniff stopover in Veracruz, Mexico...
...Among those not included in this list are Charles F. Adams, board chairman of Raytheon, Otis Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times...
...The company has 51 airline catering facilities at airports around the globe...
...Call or write the airline-for your copy...
...Pan Am president Najeeb Halaby has been a leading exponent of opening Eastern Europe to U.S...
...13 Given the airline's political and economic clout and its importance to the "national interest" it appears to be almost certain the desired merger will take place...
...The New York Times, April 22, 1942 (Guatemala...
...navigation and weather is so vast that virtually every airliner of the last 40 years (including the 747 ) was built to standards set by us and introduced to world service by us...
...Robert B. Anderson Najeeb E. Halaby William W. Scranton Franlk Stanton Juan T. Trippe Cyrus R. Vance Whywe fly where others don't...
...Ever since Pan Am's original government mail contract, the airline has nurtured and has been heavily dependent on a close working relationship with the government...
...JAMES S. ROCKEFELLER (1953)- Chairman of the Center for Inter-American Relations, the elite Latin American policy lobby group (See NACLA pamphlet, The Rockefeller Empire/Latin America, available for 50C...
...The venture was a flop...
...a director of IBM and Aetna Life and Casualty Co., and a partner in the prestigious Wall Street law firm of Simpson,Thacher, and Bartlett...
...Marriott opened an A&W Root Beer Stand in Washington, D.C...
...Among the Latin American airlines in which it has had an ownership position are: -- Aerovias Guatemala...
...42, (March 1962), Prensa Latina, Havana (Cuba...
...put on President Nixon's Inaugural Ball and sponsored last year's Honor America Day, co-chaired by Bob Hope and Billy Graham...
...It was also the year we developed instrunent flying and organized aviation's first complete weather service...
...A week in mid-January was spent traversing official Washington, calling upon congressional staff members, other congressmen, Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe, and at least two members of the Civil Aeronautics Board--chairman Secor D. Browne and vice chairman Whitney Gillilland...
...In the words of Business Week (February 17, 1968), If the Vietnam War ends, Pan Am's Pacific profits could feel a pinch...
...Another incident during the forties was reported in the Dominican Republic...
...Roosevelt believed the shortage of hotels was one reason potential investors and tourists avoided Latin America--a draw-back to the "Good Neighbor Policy" he was promoting...
...Afluergiving you the world...
...Note: Two other articles used in writing the above on Pan Am can be found in Forbes, December l, 1968 and Business Week,February 17, 1968.- 16 - WHO RULES PAN AM ? Of necessity, the men who shape the guiding policies of the giant milti-national corporations such as Pan Am must be well connected with the levers of power in the world's of high finance, government, communications, international diplomacy, and big business...
...which advises the Air Force on space programs...
...7. Endangered U.S...
...Two years after his meeting with Roosevelt, Trippe founded IHC which today is still one of the major international hotel chains in Latin America...
...government-business-labor funded program designed to combat communist trade union organizing in Latin America...
...Lately, Halaby has been busy preparing the proper government authorities and the media for such a merger: Over the Congressional recess he saw Senator Warren Magnuson (D-Wash...
...For the story of Anderson's oil interests and his role in oil price fixing while Treasury Secretary see The Washington Post, July 16, 1970...
...In l939 we fle east over theAtlantic to open Europe and give travelers access to the Near East and Africa...
...This particular flight was an inaugural and Pan Am had no intention of permitting a new competitor into its territory without a struggle...
...director of Holt, Rinehart & Winston, a major publishing house, and the New York Life Insurance Co., trustee of the counter-insurgency think tank, the Rand Corporation...
...By the time this newsletter reaches readers a recently compiled corporate biography of the company should be available to the public...
...Managua Peru...
...WILLIAM W. SCRANTON (1970)- Member of a long-established Eastern family...
...JUAN TRIPPE (1927)- Organized and become president of Pan Am in 1927, became board chairman in 1964 (now Honorary Chairman...
...5. For more on Pan Am's Cape Kennedy contract and the tracking stations see The Christian Science Monitor, May 24, 1969...
...Santo Domingo Ecuador...
...Donald K. David, past chairman of the executive committee of the Ford Foundation...
...And service s important...
...Montevideo Venezuela...
...We're still the only ULS...
...The bill was introduced to Congress by one of the airline's key supporters, Patrick McCarren, Republican Senator from Nevada--it failed, however...
...Becauseof men likeCharles A. Lindbergh...
...Quito El Salvador...San Salvador Mexico...
...However...
...For example, two of IHC's new Latin American hotels -- in Buenos Aires and Managua -are being jointly financed with Aerolineas Argentinas and Air Managua respectively...
...The company's current operations include Hot Shoppes, In-Flight Services (airline catering), Fast Food Division, Big Boy Restaurants, Marriott Hotels and Motor Inns, and divisions that supply food to institutions such as colleges, industries and hospitals...
...4. The Wall Street Journal, March 19, 1970...
...investments and trade...
...the Johnson administration's chief troubleshooter on special missions to Korea, Cyprus, Greece, the Dominican Republic and ten-months as a negotiator at the Paris "peace" talks...
...The company is also part owner of Bird restaurants in Puerto Rico and Jorge Bird sits on Marriott's board...
...5 In 1963 it landed another government contract to manage the Nuclear Rocket Development Station at Jackass Flats, Nevada...
...NAJEEB E. HALABY (1965)- From 1961-65 was Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), one of the two principal government regulators of the airline industry...
...IHC prefers to take a minority ownership position in the hotels it manages, leaving the bulk of the financing to local governments and private interests...
...2. The Wall Street Journal, March 19, 1970...
...Compania Mexicana de Aviacion (Pan Am sold its 35 percent interest in 1968...
...Which is only natural because airlines tend togo at it pretty good when it comes to advertising their service...
...Todo it we developed the worlds first long range weather forecasting system, built our own landing and refueling bases along the way, and became the first airline to serve warm meals aloft...
...The dates in parentheses following each name indicate when they joined Pan Am's board of directors...
...8 NO COMPETITION WANTED IN LATIN AMERICA Up until 1945 Pan Am was the only scheduled U.S...
...And our ability tomake your travel easy, as yoa want it to be...
...from 1955-57 was president of Ventures, Ltd.(now Falconbridge Nickel) a $250-million Canadian based mining complex with extensive interests in Latin America, Africa, and Europe...
...also a director of Kimberly-Clark (makers of Kleenex) and the National Cash Register Co., and Monsanto Corp...
...added to Pan Am' s board of directors in 1971 to replace his brother Arthur K. Watson who was appointed by President Nixon to be the U.S...
...Pan Am was founded in 1927 as an airline serving Latin America...
...flag carrier with Pan Am stockholders having a 30 percent interest...
...Grace sold their 50-50 interests to Braniff...
...and men who have served as special ambassadors and high-level troubleshooters in numerous crisies around the globe...
...Treasury, Army, and Navy...
...9. For the three incidents mentioned above (in Mexico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic) see The Wall Street Journal, March 19, 1970...
...At the request of the U.S...
...Pan Am's resistence to new competition in its Latin American domain are legendary in the airline industry...
...He joined Pan Am in 1928, one year after flying whereothers hadn't...
...The above is just a brief sketch of Pan Am's operations...
...12 PUSH FOR DOMESTIC ROUTES Though Pan Am was the first airline to fly across the Pacific (1935) first to cross the Atlantic (1939) and first to fly around the world, it neglected one of the largest and most lucrative markets of all--the United States...
...And when demonstrators, angry at some U.S...
...JAMES A. LINEN, III (1971)- Publisher of Time Magazine (1945-60) and currently president of Time, Inc...
...WHO STAYS AT IHC HOTELS...
...Caracas Venezuela...
...also board chairman of Athens College (Greece), chairman of the U.S...
...The Washington Post, February 7, 1971...
...So what hav weone tor you lately...
...1971)- Chairman of IBM, which has a near monopoly on the computer market throughout the world...
...The New York Times, November 1, 1970...
...military forces in Southeast Asia...
...The history was prepared by John Leslie, retiring senior vice president for international affairs, a 40 year Pan Am veteran with over 20 years of service on the board of directors...
...Donald Nixon is an old hand at trying to capitalize on his brother's name...
...Our experience with planes...
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