Word: brasil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mail contracts. In island chains and jungles, his crews hacked out airports, strung together radio and weather networks. The better to feed his mushrooming lines, he formed a brood of subsidiaries and affiliates, of which he still has 18; the biggest are Pan American-Grace Airways and Panair do Brasil.** Whenever competitors tried to horn in, quick-thinking, quick-moving Juan Trippe managed to outfly them, outflank them or simply outlast them...
Thirty stories above the street, the world's largest clock told the time. In the huge, marbled lobbies of South America's tallest and finest railway station, loudspeakers poured out sambas. But the Government-operated Central do Brasil's new Dom Pedro II Station in Rio was incomplete behind its majestic façade. Train sheds had still to be roofed. At rush hour 150,000 commuters and fellow travelers jammed narrow platforms, were squirted on & off trains like toothpaste. The grandeur of Dom Pedro II Station could not mask the rickety state of Brazil...
Derailments frequently make thousands late for work. Equipment is so run-down that passengers can hardly remember when the Central do Brasil has run on time. Last fortnight, commuting cariocas rioted on a rival suburban train, burned three Toonerville-type coaches...
...transportation is changing all that. Last week a Panair do Brasil plane glided into a new airfield in the town of Governador Valladares, in inland Minas Gerais state. Aboard were the atabrine, antiseptics and insecticides that the U.S.-and Brazilian-sponsored SESP (Servigo Especial da Saude Publica) now flies to 32 backwoods outposts, from, the Amazon to the Mato Grosso. Crowds watched the plane come in. In other "lost towns" other crowds watched the landings of planes of Cruzeiro, Vasp, Aerovias do Brasil...
...fact that the Johnny-come-latelys got the same equipment annoyed the big lines only for a while. Last week, Panair do Brasil, Pan American's local subsidiary and the first non-U.S. company to get a Constellation, flew one from Rio to Casablanca to scout a route to London and Paris for the first Brazilian overseas airline. But Panair President Paulo Sampaio had only a brief headstart on Cruzeiro, whose DC-4s will be flying the Atlantic before summer...