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...last week approached Buenos Aires from the east, lazily circled the city. Along the Plata estuary, 30,000 enthusiastic Porteños watched the plane land smoothly. Then out hopped the plane's proud owner and Pan American Airways' newest South American competitor, Argentine shipping tycoon Alberto Dodero...
Shipowner Dodero has long wanted to start his own airline connecting Buenos Aires and Montevideo and Asuncion (now connected by his ships). To do so, Dodero tried unsuccessfully to buy U.S. planes in 1943. In England last summer the reception was warmer. Dodero was royally wined & dined. He got the wholehearted blessing of BOAC, Pan Am's most determined foreign competitors. Dodero bought four of Short Brothers' Sunderlands. This week the U.S. helped also. It allotted Dodero two surplus DC-45. Eventually, Dodero plans to buy at least six more planes, fly to Europe in competition with...
Swarthy, round-faced Mr. Dodero has the cash to back his ambition. Montevideo-born, he went to Buenos Aires and, when he was 15, got a job with a river boat company. Fifteen years later, he bought the controlling interest in the line. In 1942, Dodero founded Compaña Argentina de Navegación Dodero, which now operates a fleet of 333 ships. Last year war cargoes brought Dodero's company 19 million pesos profit...
There is one hitch in Dodero's plans; he still has no airline franchise. But to shrewd Mr. Dodero this is merely a matter of pulling the right political strings, a maneuver he knows well...
...With Dodero's entry, the struggle for Latin American air traffic looked like an international free...