Clipper, Vol. 6, No. 11, June 1, 1950

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Vol. 6, No. 11	PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYES OF PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS	June 1, 1950
150,000 WAS HER LUCKY NUMBER
Pan American Vice President Samuel F. Pryor is shown above welcoming Grace Epermanis, left, the 150,000th displaced person to enter the United States. Grace, accompanied by her mother, is making her first flight aboard the Pan American executive plane to Richmond, where she was greeted by Governor Battle of Virginia. She is spending a week in Washington, D. C., under the sponsorship of the Sesquisentennial Committee.
HELP WANTED
Interchange of Sales Tips in PAA's World-wide Sales Organization Helps Load Those Clippers
Vous Trouvez Toutes Langues A Pan Américain
Which Means SFO Employees Can Make a Lot of Chatter
As an international airline Pan American naturally carries many passengers from overesas countries. Sometimes the passenger speaks no English and needs an interpreter to aid in making his travel arrangements.
The company recently circulated a questionnaire among its San Francisco employees in order to find out who could help interpret in case of need.
The results showed that 18 foreign languages and dialects are spoken.
There were many who speak the standard European languages — French, German, Italian and Spanish. And there were also several who speak the Cantonese dialect of China, the dialect used in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Other Chinese dialects, including the cultured Mandarin, are rare in these parts, but the questionnaire turned up employees who can handle the Shanghai and Toishan dialects and one man, Philip Chai, who speaks Mandarin.
Other languages that can be handled by PAA staff members are Guamanian, Czecho-Slovakain, Finnish, Greek, Hawaiian, Japanese, (Continued on Page 2)
IRELAND YET
Godfrey Black, San Francisco guard, who traveled to Dublin, Ireland, to visit his brother before he returned to retire from the company last month. He found the trip, purchased at 85 per cent discount, mighty easy on his pocket book.
The effectiveness of the worldwide sales organization, which is necessarily maintained in the PAA System, is increased materially by a free interchange of sales leads between all the offices of the three Divisions and the sales offices within the United States. PAD Sales Manager, Joe Fessio, is proud indeed of the sales leads that have been produced within PAD for sales contact within the U. S., LAD and ATL. Two stations in particular have excelled in the procurement of leads. Within a recent six-weeks period alone, Honolulu came forth with more than 1100 excellent passenger leads covering individuals within the U. S. who are likely to travel from the U. S. to Hawaii and return. A very high percentage of those prospects will be sold. Our competition succeeded in obtaining only about 30 per cent of the same leads at the same time our Honolulu office got them. Quick action was then required and taken to reach the prospective passengers first.
Bill Ortwin and A1 Otter, the District Traffic Manager and Cargo
Salesman respectively in Tokyo, have heen most alert in producing fruitful cargo sales leads fronN within Japan for “consignee selling” elsewhere. One group of 85 such leads has just been passed on to LAD. Some 500 similar leads preceded the 85 in a three-month period.
Bob Johnson, Cargo Supervisor in Bangkok, has furnished both Atlantic Division European offices as well as the Hong Kong and Tokyo offices with cargo sales leads which cover cargo that has been short-hauled and either fed to us by connecting carriers or routed beyond Bangkok on competing airlines. In both instances, this short-hauled cargo is being developed into long-haul cargo as a result of Johnson’s alertness.
The foregoing examples of sales leads obtained at specific offices is by no means fully indicative of the steady flow of sales leads initiated within PAD for other parts of the System.
On-line stations are continually (Continued on Page 2)
PAA Announces Cut in Excess Baggage Charge
CAB Okays Half Price Rate on All Excess Above 22 Pounds
Pan American World Airways recently announced sharp cuts in excess baggage rates for travelers over the Pacific, thereby easing the burden on the pocketbooks of passengers who like to carry extra luggage.
Under the new rates, which follow a ruling of the Civil Aeronautics Board, charges for excess baggage except the first 22 pounds have been reduced 50 per cent.
For example, a Clipper passenger with 110 pounds of baggage has 44 pounds in excess of the free limit of 66 pounds. For the first 22 pounds of this excess he pays the normal excess rate (one-half of one per cent of one-way fare per pound), but only half of that for the remaining 22 pounds.
Seven-day all-expense tours to Puerto Rico from New York for $190 and from Miami for $165 are being offered by Pan American during the summer.
SAUCER SKIPPER
This picture of a captured flying saucer pilot was sent up from Los Angeles. The unusual looking helmet is made of a substance similar to Earth's filter paper. It is regular Martian G. I. issue to all saucer pilots attached to the Los Angeles squadron. It is worn to filter the SMOG, which might have adverse effects on the soft skulls of Martian pilots. Any resemblance between the lieutenant shown above and Hank Mc-Cance, LAX public relations representative, is purely.