Over Sea. From July to end of October U. S.-owned Pan American Airways, British-owned Imperial Airways, Ltd. and German-owned Deutsche Lufthansa have flown big, new airplanes 26 times over the North Atlantic, piled up 90,000 miles of ocean flight. Weakest of nations in 1937's international bid for future U. S.-Europe air business has been France. Following the abandonment of the Paris-sponsored mass race over the Atlantic in May and the failure of Portugal to reply to France's request for permission to use the Azores, not one French airplane attempted a North Atlantic crossing....
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