Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colombia's Lt. Benny. Lieutenant Benjamin Mendez, young Colombian flyer, affectionately called "Benny" at the Curtiss Flying Field where he trained, was still at Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, last week. Three weeks ago he kissed Manhattan friends goodbye and started to fly to Bogota, Colombia, in his Curtiss seaplane, the Ricaurte (TIME, Dec. 3). He cleared the U. S., the Greater Antilles, Central America. Then two weeks ago he insisted on leading a fleet of welcoming planes into Colon Bay. Overeager to alight, he pitched into the water. Last week his Ricaurte was not yet repaired...
...does not mean that it would be easy for President-Elect Hoover to visit President Miguel Abadia Mendez of Colombia from the Pacific side. Short of flying it would be nearly impossible. For a chain of mighty mountains cuts off Bogota (see Map) from the Pacific Ocean, and the Colombian Capital is itself more than a mile and a half high (8,560 ft.). Even from the Atlantic side it takes longer to reach Bogota, by express steamer up the great Magdalena River, than to sail from America to France...
Only recently have Colombia's adamantine mountains been conquered-by commercial air routes. Today the Scadta ("Colombian-German Air Transport Corporation") headed by smart, efficient Herr P. P. Bauer, is probably the only unsubsidized passenger and freight air service in the world which is showing a really handsome profit. All the great European air lines are state-subsidized and relatively cheap (Paris to Berlin-eight hours-$50). Colombians are glad to pay relatively dear ($200) to be flown from the Atlantic to Bogota in eight hours, when the boat trip ($80) takes from eight to sixteen days, according...
...murky, blowy morning, last week, half a hundred people huddled quietly at the Rockaway Naval Air Station, L. I. Some were Colombian civilians, others U. S. aviators. They were waiting for a new Curtiss Falcon seaplane to be drawn out of her hangar and for the arrival of the pilot. He came, a small, slender young man. The aviators hailed him as "Benny." They knew him as the gas boy who filled their tanks at Curtiss Flying Field while he learned flying; the civilians respectfully called him Lt. Benjamin Mendez, of the Colombian Air Service. The seaplane...
However, although liquorish Colombian revenues have been curtailed, the non-liquorish revenues pledged to repay the loan in question still offer "good security...