Word: andes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miami, across the Caribbean, over Panama, down the west coast of South America, over the Andes, and into El Palomar airport at Buenos Aires last week roared six of the U. S. Army's new flying fortresses-four-motored bombers each manned by eight men. They had made the 5,225-mile flight in record time (34 hr. 14 min.) with only one stop at Lima, Peru. Purpose of the longest "good will" flight in Army aviation records was to represent the U. S. at the inauguration of Argentine President Roberto M. Ortiz (see p. 24)-conveniently scheduled three...
...stranger specimen. In the Canal Zone he was dejected by the surfeit of night life, in other Latin-American cities by the lack of it. The natives were too rich or too poor. He alternately froze, sweat unmercifully, gasped for breath in the 12,000-ft. altitudes of the Andes. The farther he went, the sadder he got. So he named South America the "Sad Continent...
...Geographical Institute at 2 o'clock today, moving pictures of the Andes will be shown. Open to the public, the movies, entitled "Over the Lindbergh Route," will bring out many of the geographic aspects of the regions along the extensive airways of the Pan American Lines...
...movie is reputed to have been made with great care, and several months were required to take scenes in the wilds of the interior and to transport the pictures over the Andes...
...that the treaties will receive early ratification. When the caravan reached Argentina last week it had secured the solemn pledges of Brazil, Cuba, Uruguay and Venezuela to get busy. To their collection the ladies added the promise of Argentina's President, Agustin P. Justo, then headed across the Andes for Santiago, Chile. Next in line for a pressure visit come Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Panama...