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...sinister as her late 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR FRONT: Sedta Cuts the Rates | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

Included in the phone book are the numbers which do not connect through the University switchboard. Only graduate students who have asked that their number be printed will be included...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON'S PHONE DIRECTORY WILL BE AVAILABLE MONDAY | 11/8/1940 | See Source »

...last week well-plucked Condor turned amphibian. Taking to the water, it signed a contract with Snapp Navigation Co. of Brazil for service up the Amazon. The new river line will connect Condor's coastal route to its line running up along the Bolivian-Brazilian frontier, will give its systems in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru access to an Atlantic outlet. If President Vargas' three-week-old promise of domestic colonization and agricultural development in the Amazon goes through, Condor will have a wedge into the heart of Brazil's richest territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: Plucked Condor | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...Midlands industries dwell in & along the Pennine Range, which are old Paleozoic uplands winding north & south, cut in two by a gap between Manchester and Leeds. Through this gap a canal was dug in the early 19th Century to connect the Mersey River with Aire River and the Humber Estuary which flows past Hull. In deep pockets on both flanks of the Pennines lie coal and iron (the min ing regions are shown on the map by tipples) near which the great industrial centres grew - Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby, Birmingham, Manchester. Around these cities lies "black country," shrouded in smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strategic Map: Britain's Vulnerable Midlands | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...better reception connect your aerial to the radiator or heating pipe). 8:00Porgy and Bess. 9:15 Jazz-Lab. 9:45 Masters of Music: Tschaikowsky; Serenade in C Major, Opus 48; 6th Symphony. 10:45 News and Interview...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NETWORK PROGRAM | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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