Word: pan-american
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...things happened in South American aviation last week (see Map, p. 30): ¶ Pan-American Airways (U. S.) extended U. S. air mail service down the west coast from Mollendo, Peru, to Santiago, Chile, thus completing the longest U. S. air mail route?Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, to Santiago, 3,900 mi. Scheduled travel time from New York to Santiago is 8 days, against 21 days by boat. Postage per half-ounce is 70¢ from any point...
...SCADTA (Colombian-German) received Chilean permission to extend its lines from Colombia to Arica, Chile. Thus SCADTA will parallel part of the Pan-American west coast route...
...Pan-American Airways sent a survey plane from San Juan, Porto Rico, to Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana (on South America's north coast), by way of Guadeloupe (French possession), Martinique (French possession), Georgetown (British Guiana). That is the mail route which U. S. Assistant Postmaster General Warren Irving Glover last week authorized to go into operation next month...
...Pan-American Airway's man, Gene Summers, was at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, contending with Brazil's Secretary of Public Works Victor Konder for Brazilian air mail contracts, which would profit Pan- American when it extends its lines down around the east coast to Buenos Aires...
...airman is becoming mighty in South American aviation, and another is promising to become so. They are Juan Terry Trippe and Ralph A. O'Neill, presidents respectively of Pan-American Airways and New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Lines. Both are in their middle 30's, both intend to tie a line of transports around the continent. Mr. Trippe last week was well on his way, Mr. O'Neill just starting...