Word: scadta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he was Ambassador to Colombia, he was alarmed by the presence of the German-operated airline Scadta so near the Panama Canal. Well aware that Pan American Airways controlled Scadta and could throw out the Germans, Braden turned the heat on Pan Am through Washington, got action, and demonstrated one of his favorite theses: that Naziism, wherever and however it infiltrated Latin America, had to be and could be eradicated...
Colombia reported the departure to Chile of Peter Paul von Bauer, who operated the German-owned Scadta Airline until it was seized by the Government last year. In Chile he did his best to ingratiate himself with Chilean authorities by presenting them with a German freighter which had been tied up in Valparaiso Harbor since the war began...
...third important German loss since outbreak of World War II. Start of the war forced abandonment of the Nazi transatlantic service to South America. Last summer Colombia (with U.S. urging) nationalized the 5,175-mile, German-affiliated Scadta line. Chief lines still operating in South America with direct or indirect German connections: Brazil's Condor (10,000 miles extending into Argentina and Chile), Vasp (1,200 miles) and Varig (940 miles); Bolivia's Lloyd Aero Boliviano (3,000 miles); Ecuador's Sedta (900 miles...
...beginnings about 20 years ago. German pilots set up small lines (often in interior regions where there could be no hope of making a profit), became naturalized citizens, married South American women. The lines grew by hauling mail at big losses, carrying South American officials free. Even after the Scadta line was nationalized, about half of the line's 22 pilots remained in Colombia. Two of them bought land ostensibly for farming, used it instead to start an unscheduled line with two old planes...
...Since 1931, Pan Am had owned a majority of Scadta's stock. Reportedly, most of their shares were held in escrow (with voting powers) under the name of Scadta President Peter Paul von Bauer...