Business & Finance: Pan Am on the Record

Pan American Airways' handsome, bemedaled President Juan Terry Trippe smiled handsomely and modestly accepted another gold plaque for his "distinguished contribution to the advancement . . . etc." It was the 30th annual convention of the National Foreign Trade Council, and the sixth time the Captain Robert Dollar Memorial Award had been handed out. But when Juan Trippe thereupon started talking about "Foreign Trade in the Air Age," it was real news. After months of heavy silence from Pan Am and frantic speculation by everyone else concerned, Juan Trippe now, for the first...

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