Clipper, Vol. 1, No. 7/8, November 1944

              VOL. 1—NO. 7	44117
Copyright 19UU, by Pan American Airways, Inc.
NOVEMBER, 1944
War Bonds Become Bombs In Battle Against Japanese, Treasury Launches Sixth War Loan Drive This Month
AWARD SHOULD GO TO LAD, SAYS TRIPPE
“Your country is still at war, are you?”
With this challenge Uncle Sam starts off the sixth war loan drive in November, asking Americans to dig down and finance the last phase of the war against Germany and intensification of the war against Japan.
The campaign begins officially Nov. 20^ and ends Dec. 16, but Pan American in union with other industries is extending the drive to a full two months from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31 in order to give added emphasis to the support PAA’ers are giving the war.
An organizational meeting was held Oct.
30 at which was formed the PAA Employees Committee for the Sixth War Loan Drive.
This drive will be the most extensive ever conducted, treasury officials point out. Here are some facts presented for thinking Americans:
It has required two years to regain what the Japs took from us in two weeks.
As of Oct. 1, 1944, we took less than 400 Jap prisoners. They just won’t surrender.
We have got to kill them to win!
There are 75 million Japs.
The Japs have 4,500 war plants extending from Tokyo to Yokohama.
The Japs control an enslaved working force of 400 million persons. Working days are from 12 to 16 hours with only two days off a month. Highest pay is three dollars per day and from 30 to 75 per cent of this is absorbed in compulsory taxes and bond purchases.
Japan is located 5,000 miles from America.
It cost over six billion dollars to capture the Marshall Islands alone.
Every bond helps, so let’s start buying.
Both payroll deductions and cash purchases are needed.
Giant Stratosphere Clippers Are Ordered By Pan American
Details of a great postwar air transport project in which Douglas Aircraft Company engineers, working in cooperation with those of Pan American World Airways, have developed a giant substratosphere Clipper have been revealed by Donald W. Douglas, president of the Douglas company. The project, largest and most significant in the history of commercial aviation, calls for delivery to Pan American of a fleet of 26 four-engined Clippers, designated as DC-7s, at a cost of $40,000,000.
Carrying 108 passengers and a crew of 13 and capable of speeds of more than 300 miles an hour, these giant Clippers will make possible Pan American’s program of mass transportation, bringing swift, economical travel within the reach of the average man. Spacious pressurized cabins in these huge new Clippers will provide for comfortable travel at an altitude of 20,000 feet.
Immensity of these new Clippers is emphasized by the fact that their wings will be longer, from tip to tip, than a 16-story building and large enough for interior passageways for servicing and repairing engines in flight. They will be twice as large as the giant Clippers now flying Pan American’s trans-oceanic routes and seven times larger than the standard DC-3 transports in operation all over the world.
Pan American will operate these big Clippers directly to Latin America from Miami, New Orleans, and Los Angeles at fares as low as 3 V2 cents a miles. The mammoth planes will carry passengers from Miami to Buenos Aires in 20 hours, to Rio de Janeiro in 18 hours, and span the Pacific from Los Angeles and San Francsico to Honolulu in about 8 hours.
Salute To China
Defying treacherous weather and Japanese Zeros, a stout-hearted band of young American and Chinese have completed 20,000 trips over the jagged ice-covered Himalayas to bring vital supplies to Chinese soldiers. These young men, flying for China National Aviation Corporation which is operated by Pan American World Airways in partnership with the Chinese government, are bringing more supplies into China than ever came in over the old Burma road.
Although dates of delivery to Pan American depend upon progress of the war and government decisions on production and manpower priorities, most of the engineering has been completed and the basic airplane of this size is actually under construction at the Long Beach, Cal., plant of the Douglas Company.
The new Clipper will be powered by four engines of even greater displacement than the 2,100 horsepower Double Wasp. Details of this new engine are still a heavily guarded military secret.
The new million and a half dollar Clippers built by Douglas will have two spacious cabins, one accommodating 72 passengers and the other 36, besides a modern galley
Declaring that Juan T. Trippe has made the greatest contribution to inter-American friendship and good will of any citizen of the Americas during 1944, the Americas Foundation cited the President of Pan American World Airways for its annual “Americas Award.”
The award, made to President Trippe at the annual Birthday of the Americas dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York, Oct. 12, was presented by James A. Farley, former postmaster general, who hailed Trippe as a pioneer in building the good will of the Americas, the “modern Columbus of the air.”
In receiving the award, Trippe said, “The thousands of men and women in our system’s Latin American service JUAN T. trippe should receive this award. And I include the many hundreds of men and women of the splendid national airlines of Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru who are all associated with the Pan American Airways System in Latin America.”
“With your permission, then, I will pass on this award to those without whom if could never have been earned: to the faithful weather observer at his high post in the Andes; to the mechanic at the Santos Dumont airport in Rio de Janeiro; to the traffic men in'three hundred cities ‘south of the border’ who are expediting passengers and important wartime air express; to the master pilots and flight crews who, at this moment, are bringing Buenos Aires closer to New York, Los Angeles closer to Lima, and all of us assembled here closer to our sister nations on the south.”
Sumner Welles, former undersecretary of state and Dr. Tomas Elio, former minister of foreign affairs of Bolivia spoke at the dinner which 23 inter-American and local organizations cooperated in sponsoring.
equipped for serving full-course meals, dressing rooms, toilets, cargo compartment, flight deck and compartment for pilots. There will also be large storage compartments for food and electrically operated stoves and refrigerators.
Thermal de-icing systems, built into the wings and other surfaces, will make comfortable all-weather flight possible at high altitude.