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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1949.

"AND NOW TO SNATCH THE.

TRIUMPH FROM HIM

"

BRUTA FORCE

ATTENDANT

ALL ITS

Worth Copertulit. By arrangemant with Evening Standard.

BIG MONEY IN THE

BERLIN AIRLIFT

EARLY £1,500,000 has

been earned in six months by civil aero- planes on charter in the Berlin airlift.

I believe that charter companies, operating be- tween 30 and 40 aircraft. shared a gross revenue about £483,000 in January: From this i calculate

of

that

they earned a net profit of

or

not less than £70,000.

This month the net profit

to £94,000, will go up about £3,360 a day. That is on the basis of each air- craft doing two trips a day. which is the minimum average for the fleet as whole.

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By GROUP CAPTAIN II.S.L. DUNDAS,

DSO., DFC.

★

December, using four Lan- custrians. This effort must have given them a profit of more than £6,000.

Eleven private companies on them to be with- Including

caused

most

0.1

he

stubs lying in their stores, was told they were not for sale. He asked Airwork, Ltd,, to ap- pranch the

corporation

· ន

buyers, and the stubs were re- leased to them immediately.

is

Latest addition to the airlift General Critchley's {111 Skyways, who now have three Avro Yorks carrying freight and two Lancastrians dying fuel.

Believed to be the most sue- cessful money-spinners in civil

scale of

myment

£3,000 A WEEK

WITH EXTRAS

charter Bul Was

William Hickey

Money Talks?... Well, Yelps-Rather!

H

the

LONDON. closer Cut for the first time)

of

OW are things in the his opinions on the ure

money. Mr Connolly looks like West End, that sen an overfed cat, but conceals the sitive barometer of spit of a puma,

condition of things

Particularly he

everywhere?

doesn't like

anyone who figured in what he enlla "this love affuir between

Bookings for rooms in the rakish Big Business and home- luxury hotels contine to be ly, respectable Miss Bureau- most satisfactory. It is easy to cracy" meaning some of the get a room at the week-end, but witnesses at the Lynskey Tribu- tot during the Morudny-Friday, ul.

period.

Says he: "To a detached ob- Visitors to Londors who keep server what stands out most Is up the reni prosperity of the the complete and utter dulness ig hotels are mostly from the of the two coulleting ways of Continent. There nre more life.

French, Belgian, German, and "Which would you rather bo Danish visitors than there were a business man bowling to und before the War.

Iro between. Lention and Mon- Bat In the Lars receipts are chester, always looking for slown quite benvily. Hotel bars fourth at cards, entire for the which were taking: £120 a day make of trade Innumerable bad

12 months ago are now under luncheons with people you've the 108 mark, some as low as

£75. Grill rooms and restau- rants also show a diucline.

IT IS the West End facet

of IL world in which money

never met, dining at dog

race

talks-now with more of a yelp tracks with minor politicians. in its volee than ever....and waiting for perills to make Sometimes almost giving you a profis at once removed by luxa- twist

un the wives Arm, For tion, Jollying example:

public Agures-or a servant The amount of money worry the State, poor but enormously

1 The

of ot

of

ing Mrs JANET JOHNSON, respectable, inflated by touched West End restaurant, was 75 cape and despatch cases, and 50 Swiss frames.

smothered by the gnawings She just a diamond wateli fear or envy that any old Park- while on holiday in Zurich, and. lane jackdaw appearing on the on the day she was leaving for window-sill bedazzles like a London, found that it had been peacocit? returned to the municipal fost ******* property office.

was

Mr.

Mrs Johnson, who speaks ini-

CONNOLLY tears "tho it spirit of the Russian purges is peccable French, asked for back-and

was then told there growing up in our happy little Socialist brotherhood." He had 75 franes reward to pay. Her allowance was spent up, better take a look at Moscow's She tried the British consul funny paper, KROKODIL, and where she got friendliness but l out what happens when the no cash.

Communists start spreading that spirit among the children.

Finally, she went back to the lost property office and told her

lens.

CROSSING

They have just issued a new Political Snakes

into the

tory

life

strewn,

The Chan-

whom

4

winner

It

At Wunsdorf, in Ger- mapy, his aircraft are kept aviation. Skyways at first re- flying by ex-Group Captain fused to come in the Sarsby, until last August term being unacceptable.

new Jasis of 12 chief engineer of B.S.A.A.C. Agreed on at Skyways joined FLEW MORE

That's all right." said the game called Training his crews as he the f THAN RAF

attendant, with a pitylig sinile. and Ladders. The goes along. Bennett has

You can have it back for the, first to reach a hundred on nothing. Thirty-five-year-old Wing done

of the ring

We didn't realise you the games-board without falling fearsome pits of Wes- were English."

with which 11 is Commander Barry Aikman, himself. Nearly always he

Here rain the terms are who runs Aquila Airways, does three flights in each 24

for

Worst penalty on the board: operated Hythe flying-boats hours, taking more than seeret, but i believe that

at 88, Above It standa Mr each York Skyways are

pald slitting nel from the Continent was also Churchill alongside a barrel of from September, until ice 27 tons of fuel into Berlin, 23.00 a week, with at

gunpowder with a "warmonger's Berlin's Lake Havel

Asing visitor from Italy, to payments for He dies with a crew of three time

the lure of money has enme in orch" in his band. himself-onu

infancy. He is a pale, thin, 11- fewer

layer who alights on and nationalised British

; than B.S.A.A.C. use with the

1 know that when flying con-year-old lad who looks like

Twist-PIERINO goes back to No. 8. where Mr Yorks Latin Oliver ditions are good these

Churchill is walling. swathed South American Airways drawn in December.

Using two bonts, supple- same aircraft. He carries

in bandages-the wounds the are operating alongside the

are earning very nearly as much |GAMBA, an infant prodity with tinn carries 8.7.

money an hour as Bennett does la baton.

Soviet say his prestige received RAF. The civil fleet is mented for the last months by each trix the corpora- by a third, Aikman's com-

with his Tudors.

He has grown longer bul no in 1940, when he failed in his growing. A month ngo

Bennett's One earnot assess of

wider since he was last here. intervention war against Russia. carried 5 tons

operating costs exactly, for the

And one look at his face rubs Other azards: the BBC and there were 31 planes at pany

on each trip, flew terms on which he obtained the

home the fact that conducting Amerien's European broadensts. work. Now there are 44, freight

aircraft are not known. more than 400 hours. Soon there will be 48.

is a job for a man with a prize if you land on them back you fighter's stamina. His black go to Goebbels shouting through Plane for plane, they

hair looks

ever. Imper than

A microphone from his coffin, These aircraft are carry flew more than the RAF

Their five

with aircraft.

under the

eyes and an American movie theatre ing about 40 percent of the although using the

which they obtain a high utilisn-Black ravines

a Sky- tion, are each probably earning are sad to see-al II. And he showing "The Corpse in British loul, though they kind of bout, and they car

between £20 and £25 profit doesn't smile so much.

scraper." Also

But if you weather if these represent only 25 percent of ried a heavier load.

per lying hour. This

100 and Anally reach netting All their flying crew numbered

that the

company is

lovely-a jeta -£13,000 - cach month from the the liquid fuel — petrol, three against the RAF

propelled ircraft is waiting air1.

back to diesel oil, and kerosene soven.

rendy to whisk you safety and friends in the Suviet used in the three Western In three and half months

be Union. AT 2.30, 5.20, sectors is flown in by Bri- this £20,000 company made tish civilian operators. This enough profit to buy nine 7.20 & 9.20 P.M. is the most dangerous job

ilythes from R.O.A.C. on the lift.

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Produced by FRED KOHLMAR

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Cathay

ROUND TRIP

£40 PROFIT

I can disclose the rates t which these, aircraft are

men

-

*

It Is said that one was vir- tually a gift from A. V. Roe's to same the man who

believed in

Tudors. The other, it is stated, was supplied un the hire- purchase system.

Total bill involved was about £120,000,- The Ministry of Supply offered Tudor freighters to BOA.C. for £100,000 apiece.

NET PROFIT 15 NEAR £16,000

Since Yorks' are more econo- meal to operate Skyways prolit 1s correspondingly higher than

Bennett's.

cans

Soon long trousers will covering those infant knees and

thing is

he will be wearing ties instead OVER returns

better.

And, whatever the weather, their £3,000 is guaranteed.

Although the RAF is doing a

the air waves good job on the lift,

of velvet with lace ruffles. So Bennett's charter rate ot show that, aircraft for aircraft.

ho is off on another year of comes a new volce-and a new The company was started

£150 per Aying hour probably the civil operators do'

(some name (yes, an American again). last summer by four young gives him a clear profit of

those Occasions House- at The Shvways Yorks are carry-intensive concert-giving

Choler, Fami4: who cuch

£20. put in least

That would mean in 20.500 1. payload: the RAF say at £1,000 a time), just in On

Round 16,500 case his talent doesn't grow up wives' that he has so far made a net Yorks were taking only

him-and, unlike thore Favourites and Record £5,000.

the BBC lats stopped with Ib.. though they have

geniuses MOZART p-when

entertainment. Working from a London profit of £18,000,

this up to 18.000 h. by stripping other baby

YEHUDI MENUHIN, he choose our own auct office of one' room, with one Soon he will do more Hying out galleys and lavatories.

Miss NELLIE LUTCHER has finds himself too old at 14. been, the only

Intely appeared to break up the fully

GROSBY. of Company

The RAF are also using the

Toutine condi- new

for SINATRA, PH, HARRIS, and up piling

money Yet these carry only 15,000 lb.-

Independence the Boy DANNY KAYE,

In this

Country Miss Conductor has the approval of castrians.

33-year-old a man old enough to be great-great-grandfather: NARD SHAW,

chartered to the Govern secretary, they. now run So far he has

pilot 21 2234

ment. In the case of Hal- the biggest privately owned qualified for all flying tons. (converted Halifax fleet of flyingboats in the tins. bombers) they are paid by world.

A trip to Berlin and out again takes about two and

Hondley Page Hastings. IN

would rather die

He trained Captain Clem Ut less than the obsolescent Lan-future the Treasury at £85 per Air Vice-Marshal Ben-

explain ting for full duties as

TREASURY AND flying hour. The direct nett, sacked chief executives of aircraft, but Utting was icill-

THE EXPENSES operating cost for these air of B.S.A.A.C., is operating ed when a truck ran him down craft is £70 an hour.

with two Avro Tudors, the In the dark on Gatow airport.

truck: The driver of the

has RAF aircrafts have bee which B.O.A.C. never been traced.

nwarded decorations for flying | aircraft

Another pilot has now taken 75 of these missiona: many turned down. -

that this Bri- uiting's Confident

Bennett the civilian plots have place, and a half hours flying time, which means that a Halton tish airliner can be run at smid get an average of two well over 100.

from each will then ut of between a profit, he bought a Tudor round trips per day earns a profit

a Tudor V., and alreraft. Be

£5,049 each month-£60,000 a £35 and £40 on each round II. and

called formed

a company

year. trip.

Airflight, Ltd.

Often one plane does three or more trips a day.

THREE FLIGHTS

IN 24 HOURS In early January, by fly- ing six trips in 24 hours, a In four months he has single Halton of West- done over 800 hours' airlift BENANGAN 2.30. 5.20.

minster. Airways. netted flying at a charter rate of 7.30 6.9.30. £220 for the company in £150 an hour,

P.M. one day.

The London end of this Sir Alan Cobham's firm, business is a. one-woman Flight Refuelling, Ltd. flew affair, the one woman being 419 hours on the lift in Mrs Bennett.

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Bennett bad hoped to another ve Tudors to his fleet. The sale was areunged, but he fore he could take delivery they were switched to Government-

· The

his cher -

BEI singer who

Jike

very

បន

Lut- coloured

sounds. looks and

much like favourite

of SAMUEL BUTLER calling for 3 ms.

Jone

like

her own.

Fitz- vocalist Ella

Shaw's neighbour, S. WIN gerald (they are both tall and STEN, quotes Shaw us saying buxom-ins achieved a start- ing success without the aid of

Chan

this handicap she book..

Despite cheque MOLIERE and BEETHOVEN."

was the cause of a black market Swing! Thus 40 years after he wrote

Barbara" Show still gramophone records,

enthusiasts here listened to her stands by his philosophy:-

voice coming

regularly health, from Munich in the "Moucy represents The Treasury is worried about strength, honour, beauty as un- Forces Network.

1 the expense of the civil airlift, deniably the and a meeting was held recent-

represents ly at whlet the terms were re-disgreen. viewed.

I new out of Berlin with one civilius captain who was doing: "Major his 22nd trip in 13 days.

pantes

Are

making a

value for money,

virtuca is

25

Over

American: They Burrledi to the shops in search of Lat- want of Illness, weakness, cher recordings-but until last unobtainable and month they were meanners,

ts in England. And these edd coples brought into the country changed hands at 255, a time,

Hier style In lo different from the other American Negro singern of the casual "couldn't care-less" school. The sbmc-

accompaniment and the extra thing newis in her own plano bounce she puts into her, soft, high-pitched monotone.

ugliness. Not the least of

that it destroys base controlled B.S.A.A.C., who had. But though the charter com-

Good people as certainly as it dig previously turned them down.

profil, they are certainly giving nifies noble people.". corporation's marne was substituted for Bennett's on the

other literary blob certificates of airworthiness, and

also dis they are now belag used on the using are of a kind which have on our landscape, the critic Mr

either been turned down, CYRIL CONNOLLY, airlift.

When Bennett asked his old or operated at a loss, by the

In squalor and poverty. Bounc exhaust nationalised corporations. ⚫ corporatiori for

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