Word: lufthansa
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...burning 200 miles offshore. Two larger ships which tried to sail were halted by five shots from the cruiser Coronel Bolognesi. Their crews fired them in the harbor. At Paita another German ship was burned. Peru retaliated by seizing the hangars and workshops and two Junkers planes of the Lufthansa airline, by taking possession of the assets of Lufthansa and German shipping companies...
...Peru, one strand was swept out completely: Lufthansa Peru. Tiny L.P. operated only two old Junkers over a 1,210-mile route, had a total investment of scarcely more than $50,000. But it pegged the German luftweb on the West Coast, connected with a route reaching straight across South America from Rio de Janeiro, thus was important out of all proportion to its size. When two German freighters were scuttled in the Peruvian harbor of Callao last week (see p. 41), troops rushed to the L.P. airport at Limatambo. There they found Ernest Eilers, L.P. manager, and Ernest Krefft...
...gawky, Lincolnesque John Gilbert Winant last week lay over water: by Clipper to Lisbon over the Atlantic, from Lisbon by British ferry-plane, passing a Lufthansa Fokker enroute to Switzerland, to Bristol over the Bay of Biscay. As the plane circled to land at the Bristol airfield, a guard of honor ringed the field. For John Winant was going to London to visit the King as Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Transportes Aéreos (Sedta) flies 900 route miles in Colombia's next-door neighbor, Ecuador. Heavily subsidized by the local Government and Germany, Sedta is controlled by Deutsche Lufthansa through equipment credits, other loans. It is no moneymaker. But it makes up in good will what it lacks in revenue. Nearly 50% of its passengers (many of whom are Government officials) reportedly travel free, barely 10% pay the full fare...
...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...