Word: america
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continents by watership. Buenos Aires is 18 days from New York, Valparaiso 21 days. Distance has retarded U. S. exploitation and participation in Latin-American enterprises more than have differences in culture and language. National City and Chase National banks of Manhattan have already ventured into South America extensively. Officials of such banks and of industries with similar foreign enterprise will, the aviation companies confidently expect, travel often to South America so soon as transportation is swift, safe. Such travelers will willingly pay high, profitable fares. Then it may be that great cities will grow in the South American interior...
With potent finance he was in close touch through Hill School and Yale friends. So as an operating executive he was well qualified when, one year ago. Aviation Corp. of the Americas bought Pan-American Airways, to make his project actual. During the past year he has opened passenger lines from Miami to Nassau, to Cuba and the West Indies as far as Porto Rico (a tourist route), to Central America via Brownsville, Tex. and Mexico City...
...extension of his project would seem fantastic in one less able. It is no less than to throw his lines entirely around South America, splicing them near the continent's bottom by a lacet between Buenos Aires. Then his Caribbean knot will be a handle to the bucket that he expects to make of South American air transportation...
...Louis XVI room of Manhattan's Hotel Manger last week. About 150 delegates gathered there and chatted in a language which no bellboy, waiter, clerk could understand. The men wore green neckties, the women green enamel stars. It was the 22nd annual congress of the Esperanto Association of North America, the organization for fostering and teaching the "universal lan-guage" which "promises sacred peace...
...from every town and village in France, from every tomb under a wooden cross in military cemeteries, a wonderful voice will answer me: 'They are not our comrades, they are our brothers; their blood is our blood; our brotherhood and comradeship, the brotherhood and comradeship of France and America, which was sealed under the shadow of death...