Word: colombo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scullin was in Ceylon en route to the Imperial Conference at London. While his ship coaled in teeming Colombo he decided to brave the sunbeams, see the town. Cheerfully he advanced down the quay escorted by punctilious officials (Ceylon is British) then suddenly turned ashen pale, tottered, collapsed in a sprawling faint...
...from the south came word, last week, of further solidification of Pan American Airways' position as leader of South American air transport routes. Its president, Juan Terry Trippe, announced a cooperative operating agreement with "Scadta" (Sociedad Colombo-Alemena de Transportes Aereos), an air transport system involving about 3,000 miles of routes in the Republic of Colombia. Joined into the links of P. A. A.'s vast chain of 13,000 miles (TIME, Feb. 17), the two systems present a formidable front to other air transport companies on the continent...