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...symbols of that flag of the American Hemisphere as if it were materially before my eyes: I see the lone star of the unified purpose of democracy, with the eagle of the North and the condor of the South-wings of democracy for its flight, claws for its defense-in the single light of that star portrayed in a white field of liberty and justice...
...World War II. Start of the war forced abandonment of the Nazi transatlantic service to South America. Last summer Colombia (with U.S. urging) nationalized the 5,175-mile, German-affiliated Scadta line. Chief lines still operating in South America with direct or indirect German connections: Brazil's Condor (10,000 miles extending into Argentina and Chile), Vasp (1,200 miles) and Varig (940 miles); Bolivia's Lloyd Aero Boliviano (3,000 miles); Ecuador's Sedta (900 miles...
...California condor lives to be 100 years old, is the largest flying bird in the world (wingspread: eight to eleven feet). About 40 of these harmless, majestic scavengers remain in the mountain fastnesses of southern and central California. One reason for its decline: it gobbles poisoned carcasses set out for wolves and coyotes...
...sister Scadta. Recently she has sought (unsuccessfully) to extend service to 1) Colombia, 2) the Galápagos Islands,† which, though sparsely inhabited and commercially impotent, are located strategically near the Panama Canal, 3) the jungles of eastern Ecuador, from which she could easily connect with Lufthansa-owned Condor's penetration line in western Brazil. Her Junkers JU52s (used as troop transports in Belgium, The Netherlands) could fly from Ecuador to the Canal Zone in four hours or less...
...later President Vargas gave his scissors another threatening click. The Government-owned Port of Para Corp. took over the local Condor agency, bringing all commercial flying in the Amazon region under administration control...