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...other U.S. airlines out of Latin America. No one has put up a stiffer fight to get in than Tom Braniff's Braniff Airways. Last week it looked as though Braniff had won a resounding victory. In a fortnight, Braniff announced, it will launch its first flight from Lima to Buenos Aires, thus giving Pan Am its first independent U.S. competitor to Argentina.* After that, Braniff will fly four round trips a week between B.A. and Houston, from which its network of U.S. routes fans out as far north as Chicago, as far west as Denver. Crowed President Thomas...
Take-Off. To show them, Tom Braniff had been knocking long & loud at the door of Argentina. As long ago as 1946, the Civil Aeronautics Board awarded Braniff routes down the west coast of South America to Lima and across to Rio de Janeiro. He even had a route allotted him into Argentina, but he did not have the permit from Argentina that he needed. Not till Braniff got the State Department, which was considering economic assistance to Argentina, to do some diplomatic stiff-arming for him did President Perón decide to play ball. The new flights will...
Braniff pressed farther south. Starting with a flight to Lima in 1948, he has opened new routes to five South American countries (e.g., Brazil, Ecuador), and he is giving Pan Am and Panagra a race for their passengers. He set up a Braniff Business Bureau to bring Latin American goods north and export U.S. goods south, offered cut-rate tourist fares. He even drummed up business among Latin America-bound Chinese travelers in the Orient by distributing handbills that were printed in Chinese. On his gross of $18,438,140 last year, Braniff rang up a net profit...
...Last fortnight two of the three, Senator Cirilo Cornejo and Deputy Luis Felipe de las Casas, were condemned to prison terms by a military court. Next night, the third, scrappy, square-faced Luis Negreiros, who had managed to remain at large, was shot to death by police on a Lima street...
Sixteen hours later, Negreiros' body, escorted by Lima's chief of police and a detachment of assault guards, was buried in the municipal cemetery...