Word: avianca
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...most part, however, official reactions were more coolheaded, if no less decisive. In Colombia, the Government-owned airline, Avianca (formed by the merger of Colombia's Saco Co. and the German Scadta System), fired all its German employes, arranged with Pan American Airways for U. S. pilots and instructors. Ecuador took steps to get rid of the Italian military mission which has been training her Army for 15 years. Argentina hastily sent her fleet of efficient river gunboats to patrol the river frontiers of Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil, rushed frontier guards into Entre Rios Province, where a Nazi plot...