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Ever, before NYRBA's first Consolidated flying boat took off from Buenos Aires for Miami last February there was talk of eventual merger between that line (New York, Rio & Buenos Aires) and Pan American Airways, then operating down the west coast of South America (TIME, July 22, 1929, et seq ). In recent weeks, with NYRBA encountering financial difficulties in its Argentine mail business, and with Pan-American invading the east coast between Paramaribo and Rio de Janeiro, the talk became louder...
...planes for service. The planes were impounded because Companhia Empreza de Transortes Aereos, a Brazilian concern, claimed breach of some contract. In the teeth of these tribulations, however, the first air mail from the east coast of South America arrived in Manhattan last week triumphantly carried up by NYRBA...
Many countries are interested in trans-atlantic air traffic. Germany's Luft Hansa, France's Aeropostale, England's Imperial Airways are counting on the use of these Portuguese Islands. In South America besides Aeropostale are the German Condor Line and the U. S. Pan-American and NYRBA lines, all of which anticipate linkage to Africa and Europe...
...NYRBA v. Aeropostale. New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line, of which William Patterson MacCracken is the new board chairman, is developing air stations from Tampa, through the West Indies and down the East coast of South America. Among the West Indies it needs port facilities on the French islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique; and in South America, in French Guiana. Due to the urgency of Compagnie Generale Aeropostale, a French government-subsidized line running from Buenos Aires to Natal, Brazil, the French government has forbidden NYRBA landing at or flying over French possessions, unless NYRBA carries mail for Aeropostale...