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...March 1928, a French company, Aeropostale, opened a route from France to Dakar by plane, across the Atlantic by boat to Brazil, by plane via Uruguay to Buenos Aires. One of the great ventures of a business age. the creation of Marcel Bouilloux-Lafont, Aéropostale could get an airmail letter from Paris to Argentina and a reply back in less time than U.S. business correspondence could make the one-way trip from New York...
President Trippe's consternation was as nothing compared to the state of M. Andre Bouilloux La Font, managing director of France's Aeropostale, in Manhattan last week to work out with President Trippe troublesome details of their companies' routes in South America. (Pan American wants the privilege of a permanent base at Cayenne, French Guiana, where Aeropostale has exclusive flying rights.) M. La Font and his aides saw the newspaper story, rushed to the Chanin Building before even the Pan American office force had arrived, waited in an agitated huddle. President Trippe placated them, put in a hurry call...
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