Word: paramaribo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first to cross the perilous Andes between Santiago and Buenos Aires many weeks before they were followed by Pan American Grace Airways; NYRBA's pilots explored the lower West Indies and the East Coast of South America to the Guianas many weeks before Lindbergh "blazed the trail" to Paramaribo; explored thousands of miles of unknown country along the river mouths of the Orinoco and the Great Amazon, long coastal stretches of the Guianas, Venezuela, and Northern Brazil, and successfully established three sections of their international route over territory where foreign lines had tried to entrench themselves and failed...
...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...
Opportune is the move for P. A. A. in regard to mail contracts. Heretofore U. S. contracts for South American mail have been granted only to the west coast lines and as far south as Paramaribo on the east (all P. A. A. routes). On Sept. 11, the Postmaster General will receive bids for the first long east coast contract, from Paramaribo south to Rio de Janeiro (Santos). P. A. A. will be the only qualified bidder...
...third anniversary of Colonel Lindbergh's stimulating, trans-Atlantic flight. This past year he has again added noteworthy items to the scroll of his work, viz: Six trips across the U. S., including the above record; opening two mail routes to South America (Miami-Paramaribo, Miami-Buenos Aires); air explorations of Indian ruins in New Mexico and Arizona, and Mayan ruins in Yucatan; stunt flying with the Navy's high hat squadron at the Cleveland air races; displaying how easy it is to learn to glide; flying altogether about 30,000 miles in all sorts of machines...
...Canal Zone. As everyone knows, its lines run thence down the West coast of South America to Santiago, and thence across the Andes to Buenos Aires. Another branch circles the entire Caribbean Sea. A main line wends from Miami to Trinidad down the South American East coast to Paramaribo (TIME, July...