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050 00 $aTL540.T7$bD34 1980
100 1 $aDaley, Robert.
245 13 $aAn American saga :$bJuan Trippe and his Pan Am empire /$cRobert Daley.
246 3 $aJuan Trippe and his Pan Am empire.
250 $a1st ed.
260 0 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$cc1980.
300 $ax, 529 p., [8] leaves of plates :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
504 $aBibliography: p. [463]-465.
505 0 $aPart 1. A young man plans. The island -- Trippe -- Colonial Air Transport -- Fired -- A new company -- First flight -- Priester -- Key West -- Leuteritz -- West Indian Aerial Express -- NYRBA -- The mad cutthroat struggle -- The first clipper -- Part 2. The Pacific. The next step -- Staking out the world -- North to the Orient -- China Airways -- Europe via Greenland -- The long-range DF -- A switch to the Pacific -- The public decision -- Practice flights -- To Hawaii nonstop -- Wake -- The China Clipper -- Life on the atolls -- Trippe around the world -- New Zealand -- Part 3. The Atlantic. The obstacles -- The first across -- The correct vehicle -- The Whitney takeover -- The Boeing accident -- Trippe returns -- Trippe versus American Export Airlines -- Blitzkrieg against TACA -- Trippe versus the U.S. Government -- Part 4. War. China -- "Delousing" SCADTA -- The airport development program -- Africa -- The Day of Infamy -- Loyalty -- The war routes -- Part 5. The new world. The community company -- High stakes -- The hearings -- The plan to save China -- The jets -- Priester demoted -- The tycoon -- The biggest gamble -- The great day -- Epilogue -- Pan Am's generation of capital.
600 10 $aTrippe, J. T.$q(Juan Terry),$d1899-1981.
610 20 $aPan American World Airways, inc.
650 0 $aAeronautics$zUnited States$vBiography.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aDaley, Robert, 1930-$tAmerican saga.$b1st ed.$dNew York : Random House, ©1980$w(OCoLC)609747510
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