Word: coast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Airway's man, Gene Summers, was at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, contending with Brazil's Secretary of Public Works Victor Konder for Brazilian air mail contracts, which would profit Pan- American when it extends its lines down around the east coast to Buenos Aires...
...President Ralph A. O'Neill of New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line was also in Rio, contending with Secretary Konder for the same contracts. President O'Neill had stopped there on a flight from San Juan to Buenos Aires surveying for the east coast air line he proposes to develop...
...their competitive plans they are not without competition from others. On the east coast there are the long and well fixed Condor Air Lines and the Campagnie Generate Aeropostale. Condor is German-owned, a subsidiary of the German-subsidized Luft Hansa, strongest aviation concern of Middle Europe if not of all Europe. Condor does a good mail and passenger service between Asuncion, Para guay, Buenos Aires and Para, Brazil. Competing is Aeropostale, French-subsidized. Its main purpose is to rush mail from Buenos Aires to Natal, Brazil, whence fast ships rush the sacks across the Atlantic to Dakar, Senegal...
...north coast is Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transposes Aereos, commonly called SCADTA. Head of SCADTA is redoubtable Dr. Peter P. von Bauer, an Austrian who has become a Colombian citizen. He is the aeronautical yes-no man of the country. Whoever wishes to touch Colombia with aviation lines must man fully deal with him. Pan-American traded rights with him in order to complete its Caribbean line from Panama to Port of Spain, Trinidad. He demanded and received the right to run SCADTA planes from Barranquilla, Colombia, to Panama...
...interior of the west coast, two lines are operating. The more important is Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, a German-owned concern which carries passengers over the rough Bolivia plateau. The other is Faucett Aviation Co., headed by Elmer J. Faucett of the U. S., who has settled in Peru. U. S. businessmen who are forced to enter the Peruvian interior hire Faucett taxi-planes. He portages them over mountains three miles high...