Word: ecuador
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Sailing on the seventh he will head first for Venezuela, and then travel to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil, spending from ten days to two weeks in each country...
...This week Washington and Ecuador were negotiating over naval bases on the Galápagos...
Last fall the State Department, finding Ecuador unwilling to follow Colombian example, replied to Sedta in kind. Dangling a reported $180,000-a-year post-office subsidy, it hooked reluctant Pan American-Grace Airways into setting up a rival service...
Result: an old-fashioned rate war. Last month Sedta established domestic airmail service, charged 80 centavos (about 25?) per five grams. A few days later, Panagra cut the price to 45 centavos. Last week came Sedta's rebuttal, devastating and unanswerable: they would carry mail free within Ecuador's borders...
...this week it was clear which way the wind sock was pointing. If Panagra is to keep her foothold in Ecuador, earn the right to buy out Sedta's operating permit, she (and Washington) must throw as much money into Ecuador's winds as Adolf Hitler...