Word: andes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never given the Argentine Government and was officially refuted by NYRBA officials. Petition for cancelation of contract was made in order to simplify readjustment of routes and mail dispatch between the two American companies which will now fly out of Argentina and Uruguay-Pan American Grace Airways over the Andes and northward via the West Coast, and Pan American Airways northward directly up the East Coast, over the NYRBA route...
Regarding NYRBA's finances. . . . Something more than $4,000,000 was poured into an operating airway, 8,903 miles in length, spanning the West Indies, extending down the East Coast of South America, then westward over the Andes to Chile and northward to the Bolivian border: the largest fleet of the largest flying boats in the world were built especially for this service and backed up by a squadron of 22 auxiliary flying ships; a careful organization was developed and scattered through 17 countries to carry the work of the air line forward; most of this...
...pioneering glory NYRBA's President, Ralph A. O'Neill, piloted the first commercial plane between the United States and Buenos Aires blazing the virgin aerial trail from New York to Miami to Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires; NYRBA planes were the first to cross the perilous Andes between Santiago and Buenos Aires many weeks before they were followed by Pan American Grace Airways; NYRBA's pilots explored the lower West Indies and the East Coast of South America to the Guianas many weeks before Lindbergh "blazed the trail" to Paramaribo; explored thousands of miles of unknown...
...announcement that on Sept. 15 Pan-American will acquire NYRBA's planes, ports, equipment and technical data. P. A. A. thus ropes the southern continent with an unbroken peripheral line as far south as Santiago (Pacific) and Buenos Aires (Atlantic) which are joined by a line over the Andes. Simultaneous with the announcement came word from Buenos Aires that NYRBA had petitioned for cancellation of Argentine government contracts for service from Buenos Aires to New York, to Santiago and to Montevideo. Reason for the petition: losses of 4,000,000 pesos (circa...
...Nature. As in many another industry, time was when Nature had a monopoly on nitrates, which meant that Chile had a monopoly. For practically all the world's natural nitrate comes from a certain desolate plateau high up in the Andes in northern Chile, a 450-mi. stretch utterly barren of water and vegetation.* But since the War, synthetic nitrogen has been steadily rolling up tonnage, while Chilean nitrate has remained almost stationary. Thus, in the "Fertilizer Year" (which begins June 1) of 1927-1928, synthetic production of pure nitrogen was 1,267,000 metric tons, Chilean...