Glamorous Crossing: How Pan Am Airways Dominated International Travel in the 1930s : Longreads Blog

Meredith Hindley | Longreads | February 2015 | 18 minutes (4,383 words) In August 1936, Americans retreated from the summer heat into movie theaters to watch China Clipper, the newest action-adventure from Warner Brothers. The film starred Pat O’Brien as an airline executive obsessed with opening the first airplane route across the Pacific Ocean.