Word: pan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British suspected Pan Am of operating at a loss to corner the traffic, drive out competition. This Pan Am flatly denied. With full loads, and five flights a week, it insisted that it can make money. The British were still miffed...
...huge four-engined Sunderland flying boat last week approached Buenos Aires from the east, lazily circled the city. Along the Plata estuary, 30,000 enthusiastic Porteños watched the plane land smoothly. Then out hopped the plane's proud owner and Pan American Airways' newest South American competitor, Argentine shipping tycoon Alberto Dodero...
...start his own airline connecting Buenos Aires and Montevideo and Asuncion (now connected by his ships). To do so, Dodero tried unsuccessfully to buy U.S. planes in 1943. In England last summer the reception was warmer. Dodero was royally wined & dined. He got the wholehearted blessing of BOAC, Pan Am's most determined foreign competitors. Dodero bought four of Short Brothers' Sunderlands. This week the U.S. helped also. It allotted Dodero two surplus DC-45. Eventually, Dodero plans to buy at least six more planes, fly to Europe in competition with a proposed Pan Am route...
...Aerovias Brasil, S.A. (TACA's Brazilian subsidiary) started flying in 1942 from the backlands of Brazil via Porto Nacional to Miami to haul rock crystal. With DC-35 acquired only four months ago, it now competes with Pan Am for passenger traffic between Rio de Janeiro and Miami...
This potential competition in its most lucrative field might eventually hit Pan Am hard. But last week Pan Am was more worried about the North Atlantic...