Word: condors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lovers were moved by the revelation of a hitherto unpublished story about the third Byrd expedition's escape from the Antarctic in 1941. Hemmed in by a closing ice pack, the 26 men at the Palmer Land camp had to risk an emergency flight out in their battered Condor plane. The plane could make only two trips, would be barely able to carry the men. What to do with their well-loved sled dogs...
Where was the Luftwaffe? One explanation of its infrequent sorties was that Field Marshal Hugo Sperrle, bull-necked veteran of Spain's ill-famed Condor Legion, was saving his strength, to use it in close support of Rommel's army when his counterattack finally got under...
Last week Francisco Franco reorganized his military bureaucracy. Appointed chief of Spain's military cabinet was General Agustin Munoz Grande, who served as liaison officer with the German Condor Legion in the civil war, proudly wears an Iron Cross bestowed by Hitler. Politically, he is a fanatical Falangist, no friend of the Allies, who are now buttering up Fascist Franco (TIME, March...
Until she declared war on the Axis, things were almost as bad in Brazil. Biggest sore spot was the huge 6,000-mile Condor line, which wants to get back some of the 4,000 route miles it has lost since 1940, would just as soon take them from U.S. airlines as anybody else. German-run and German-controlled only nine months ago, Condor was nationalized after Pearl Harbor. But until the day Brazil went to war Condor's managing director was tall, bald Ernesto Hoelck, who speaks an excellent brand of German-accented Portuguese. So the U.S. kept...
...there will be more Brazilian cooperation but probably more competition too. Thus Brazilians are sure to ask Washington for sleek U.S.-made transports to bolster Condor's fleet of 23 Junkers and Focke-Wulf transports. Meanwhile Brazil toys with a deal to give Argentina's Corporation a route to Rio if Condor gets a route to Buenos Aires...