89 The Great Depression (Part Eight) 6yr

Translator: Kim_GuoEditor: Tehrn

One day later, Huang Xuan arrived in New York. He had taken a flight on Pan American World Airways (Pan Am), which had been the most important airline in America from 1930 to when it became bankrupt in 1991. In the 1930s, Pan Am was the biggest airline in the world, but at present, it was a delivery company that was just starting to add in passenger service.
The headquarters of Pan Am was in New York. In 1929, it had been the most popular stock at the New York Stock Exchange. Fortunately, it wasn't affected much by the depression. To Huang Xuan, taking a flight on Pan Am in 1931 felt special and unreal, as if he had become closer to this plane, to this point in space-time.
Pan Am named most of their planes as "Clipper". These planes traveled between states. The flight route from Detroit to New York was extremely important, the crew all wore formal navy uniforms, and in order to compete with ships and trains, Pan Am gave first class seats to almost all of its passengers. In modern times, such a seat would cost at least 8000 dollars, while Huang Xuan paid less than 100 dollars.
Due to the Great Depression, New York, like other large cities, looked depressed and dilapidated, as if