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Mallory R. Smith, Greenville, S.C., Sherman M. Tonkonow, Meriden, Conn., Ralph B. Sussman, Newark, N. J., Norman D. Blotner, Beverly, Mass., Joseph V. Cavanagh, Providence, R. I., George H. Fraser, Monticello, Ia., Isadore Gromfine, Buffalo, N. Y., Murray Horwitz, Hollis, L. I., N. Y., Paul Melrose, Hartford, Conn., Jacob Rabinowitz, Catskill, N. Y., William P. Reiss, Newark, N. J., and Joseph S. Rogan, Roxbury, Mass...
...Amian was more pleased at the imminence of the new schedule last week than reticent, wiry, red-haired F. M. Blotner, Pan Am's Brazil operations manager. It had been his baby for nine years. An Ohio-born, World War I, U. S. Navy flier, he went to work for Pan Am in Cuba in 1929 after losing his shirt trying to operate his own airline between Miami and Nassau. Transferred to South America, he was struck by the absence of strong and prevailing winds, of storms, heavy rains and bad weather in interior Brazil. He sounded...
...passenger train, narrow-gauge freight, shaky Chevrolet, pack train and Indian dugout, Explorer Blotner went into the interior in 1931, came out with information on weather, topography, disposition of the natives. Three years later, on an aerial survey of the projected route, his pilot got lost, ran out of gas, made a forced landing in the wilderness. Airman Blotner might still be there if a Brazilian geographic expedition hadn't happened along, lent him some gas which got his ship to Belem...
...decided on the inland route. Blotner sent an unaeronautical engineer to Barreiras to find a landing field for a stop between Belem and Rio. The engineer chose a spot about three miles from town, laid out its boundaries. Last Spring an expedition cleared one runway so Pan Am engineers could fly in to finish the job. When they got there, they found that the engineer had ignored the shelf of a plateau rising 1,000 feet from the edge of the field. By some deft sideslipping the pilot got in. The engineers went to look for a new field...
...with malaria worked three hours a day; those without, five hours. Because they had no place to spend their wages. Pan Am brought in clothing, iceboxes, mosquito nets to give them something to work for. Close to completion last week, Barreiras airport is, in the opinion of Pan Amian Blotner, the finest landing field in the Western Hemisphere. It is also an excellent potential base for U. S. Army planes...