Word: belem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resident high school teacher in Santarem, 400 miles west of Belem, for five years, with plans to return, I am delighted to refer those interested in my trip to your summary and (for me) nostalgic views of such colorful cities as Belém and Manaus...
...middle-income traveler who, I.H.C. officials think, will be their biggest customer in future. As such, it is only the newest unit in Pan Am's long-range plan for increasing tourist traffic from the U.S. by supplying better hotels for travelers. I.H.C. already manages hotels in Belem, Santiago and Barranquilla, owns and operates Mexico City's Reforma and will take over Bermuda's Princess Hotel on lease...
...American World Airways' El Presidente winged northward across the Brazilian jungles, one of its four engines ran rough. The steward woke the 38 passengers, explaining that their Stratocruiser would have to land for brief repairs at Belem, near the mouth...
...Belem, Don Mauricio brusquely took command of the Pan American ground force while other passengers straggled off to an airport breakfast. Soon he pried out information that the plane would need a new engine, might be held up in Belem for a day or two. Don Mauricio burned up the wires to New York-not to Pan American but to W. R. Grace & Co., Pan American's partner in Panagra. Panagra is the rival service that flies down South America's west coast...
Early next morning, a Panagra DC-6 landed in Belem on charter to Hochschild, having flown nearly 3,000 miles into territory where no Panagra plane had ever ventured before. Shortly afterward, the 57-passenger plane took off for New York, carrying Don Mauricio, his wife and nobody else. "What money won't do!" gasped one of the stranded passengers. Thirty-nine hundred miles and 12½ hours later, Hochschild's DC-6 touched down at New York's Idlewild airport, having just about shattered all known records for a private charter flight. Though Panagra declined...