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Word: overdog (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...challenger, as usual, was swashbuckling TACA Airways S.A. For three years, TACA has worried the South American flanks of overdog Pan American Airways Corp., and has won permits to operate in such Pan Am territory as Brazil and Venezuela. Pan Am has pretended not to notice these nips. But fortnight ago it wheeled, announced that it was setting up affiliated companies in TACA's boneyard -Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, and tiny Costa Rica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Jungle Warfare | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

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