Word: panair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chile's Linea Aérea Nacional, for example, is subsidized by the government, does a sedate business at I.A.T.A. rates by ap pealing to national pride. Others offer special services, such as the direct European flights of Panair do Brasil, Cubana Air lines and Colombia's 38-year-old Avianca...
Died. John Graham Dowling, 41, veteran overseas reporter, TIME bureau chief in Buenos Aires and former (1950-53) bureau chief in Singapore, World War II Chicago Sun correspondent in the Pacific Theater, son of Comedienne Ray Dooley Dowling, stepson of Actor Eddie Dowling; in the crash of a Panair do Brazil plane; at Cuatro Mojones, Paraguay...
...Short. In Rio de Janeiro, the Panair do Brasil airline reported that it had issued a ticket to a Europe-bound woman passenger under the name Maria Cunha, rather than the name she had given them: Maria Teresa Francisco de Assis da Concepqao da Rocha Filomena das Necessidades do Sagrado Coragao de Jesus Pereira da Cunha...
...north of Rio, a truck crammed with 86 southbound migrants missed a curve, plunged into a ravine, killed the driver and seven passengers. At Teresópolis, northeast of Rio, rain-loosened mud and rocks thundered down a hill, burying a freight train, a warehouse and four railhands. A Panair do Brasil DC-3 undershot the Uberlãndia airfield, 500 miles north of Rio, and crashed into a clump of trees, killing nine and injuring 23. But of all the week's disasters, the famed Rio Carnival was the worst. Rio's festival record: 22 dead...
...southern jet stream, according to the Panair do Brasil meteorologists who discovered it, probably girdles the southern part of the globe. Moving eastward at 36,000 ft., its speed is slightly less than that of the northern stream, and its core is sometimes 180 miles wide. It rides erratically over Rio de Janeiro in winter and Patagonia in summer. Since it borders weather fronts up & down South America, Panair officials are trying to plot its tortured turnings and twistings for more accurate weather forecasting. They also want to know more about it for the day when their jet airliners...