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...State Department was negotiating with Brazil to ground Lati and Condor, its German-controlled colleague in the interior of Brazil. Until Brazil had substitutes, Lati and Condor were a necessary evil. So, pending a solution, the State Department had an agreement with Standard Oil: deliveries to the airlines continued, but only as approved by the U.S. Embassy...
...types of transport the Army favors are military versions of the Douglas DC-4, a big four-engine job originally designed to carry 42 passengers, and the twin-engined Curtiss Condor...
...Curtiss Condor III is the largest twin-engined military transport in the world. It has a speed of better than 200 m.p.h., can carry 50 fully equipped parachutists or an equivalent weight in light field artillery. It can fly the Atlantic with ease, as a British pilot demonstrated a few weeks ago. Fully loaded, it can make 1,500 miles nonstop. It is far superior to the Junkers 52, the transport the Nazis use most frequently, which has a range of 1,000 miles...
Despite such obstacles, Pan Am's work progresses both aground and aloft. Two years ago Pan Am operated 35% of South America's airlines; now it operates 63%. Axis espionage and sabotage will be lessened if & when Lati and Condor pack up and leave, as other Axis lines in South America have already...
...Whether or not they are using this Frenchman, the Axis has plenty of ways to communicate ferry-bomber take-offs from Natal: a Lati radio, a Condor radio, two commercial telegraph companies...