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...airlines more than ever. Most of this new flying is war business. Thus for months all planes headed from Miami and Brownsville to the Canal Zone have been so jam-packed with U.S. diplomats, soldiers, construction workers and South American priority traffic that many plain citizens and tons of cargo have been left behind. In Peru the natives gripe at the coolness of some U.S. airmen, get peeved because U.S. operators do not dish out free rides as the Nazis did, get mad when families of Latin American officials are pushed off airliners in favor of servants of U.S. travelers...
...operators are doing all they can to prevent such beefs. Last week Panagra started a new all-cargo service between Lima and the Canal Zone, set up a new trans-Andean schedule between Antofagasta and Salta to boot...
...cargo ship's skipper ordered Sparks to relay the S. O. S. Neither the captain, the first officer nor Sparks saw anything suspicious about the signal reporting a ship in distress some 30 miles distant in the South Atlantic. Soon night closed down over the unruffled sea and the third officer spotted lights about three miles away. Swiftly the lights grew closer to starboard. At three-quarters of a mile the approaching ship opened fire. Shells from 8-in. guns tore into the cargo vessel, quickly putting its deck guns out of action. Torpedoes from the deck tubes...
...position. As the lifeboats were lowered, machine-gun fire forced the occupants to leap into the sea and swim for a raft. Later the captain said he was sure the raider had launched at least two motorboats because the attack came from three sides. Within half an hour the cargo ship went down. Out of the darkness the raider loomed closer to the spot...
...radials for training planes, scores of compact "Red Seal" engines for trucks, busses, mining equipment. Reese spent $3,100,000 on betterments last year, is spending $700,000 this year. Meanwhile he is hard at work testing a huge, 2,000-h.p. liquid-cooled engine designed for the mammoth cargo planes now planned by many U.S. aircraft makers...