Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the seacoast was best explained by a sheaf of papers on the desk of Brazil's Dictator-President Getulio Vargas, awaiting his signature. Signed, they would permit Pan Am to lop two days off its five-day, 5,777-mile run from Miami down to Rio de Janeiro...
...fast new Boeing Stratoliners (land planes) on the over-water flight from Miami to Belem, Brazil, abandoning the overnight stop at Trinidad, resting overnight only at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Next week Douglas DC-35 will take over from Belem, fly 1,530 miles across country to Rio in nine hours, pausing briefly halfway at the new forest-shrouded airport at Barreiras. Abandoned will be the old two-day, 2,525-mile route along the seacoast with its overnight stop at Recife...
...decided on the inland route. Blotner sent an unaeronautical engineer to Barreiras to find a landing field for a stop between Belem and Rio. The engineer chose a spot about three miles from town, laid out its boundaries. Last Spring an expedition cleared one runway so Pan Am engineers could fly in to finish the job. When they got there, they found that the engineer had ignored the shelf of a plateau rising 1,000 feet from the edge of the field. By some deft sideslipping the pilot got in. The engineers went to look for a new field...
...Burbank, Calif, new land planes were building-four-motored, high-altitude Excaliburs with an average cruising range of 1,500 miles, 247-m.p.h. cruising speed (at 12,000 ft.). On the drawing boards was Pan Am's plane of the future - a 300-m.h.p. transport which could leave Rio early one morning, arrive at Miami the same evening. Pan Am hopes it will make possible a trip from Rio to Manhattan in 24 hours, a journey which by water takes twelve days...
Ever since the regime of Madero, comedians below the Rio Grande have savagely sniped at pompous Mexican politicos. Famed is Comic Roberto Soto for his feat of kidding Calles' Labor Boss Luis Morones out of office. An oldster now, Soto's wit is not so sharp as it used to be, and he has been supplanted in favor by a thin, big-eyed, loose-jointed youngster of 28, who was christened Mario Moreno, is known throughout Mexico today as Cantinflas...