Some 3,000 civilians sailed from Manhattan for Europe last week. The Cunard White Star Line's Queen Mary took out 1,228; the graceful old Aquitania (probably the only four-stacker remaining afloat) carried 483; the Holland-America Line's Nieuw Amsterdam had 500 aboard.
The Pan American Airways' Dixie Clipper took off with a full load of 45 passengers (among them was Boston's millionaire scientist, Dr. Godfrey Lowell Cabot, 84, on his 44th Atlantic crossing, his first by air). During the week three of American Export Airlines' Flying Aces, Pan American's Atlantic Clipper and American Clipper zoomed...
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