Word: colombianizing
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Panagra started about 1928, when Pan Am was first nosing into South America. On the east coast Pan Am had no U.S. competition. But in the west Pan Am ran smack into Grace, which has toted Chilean nitrates, Colombian coffee, Peruvian copper and Panama hats in its green, white & black funneled ships for decades, considers that part of South America a state of Grace. Grace was thinking about an airline to complement its shipping business. So Pan Am and Grace made a deal-each anted up $500,000, agreed to own and operate Panagra, 50-50. Panagra started flying...
...Club do more for the cause of the Good Neighbor policy than all the economic reports of Argentinean beef mimeographed in Washington in a decade. Consequently, it is good news that the New England Pan-American Society and the Phillips Brooks House have given up their stuffy sides on Colombian architecture and are sponsoring instead a gala Pan-American Ball this Friday evening to raise Harvard's interest in our adjoining continent...
...everybody always carries an umbrella, people consume "fantastic quantities of Scotch" at $7 a bottle, and are so polite that they call North Americans misteres instead of gringos. President Dr. Eduardo Santos is a newspaperman; the Foreign Minister (Dr. Luis Lopez de Mesa) is a psychological novelist. The first Colombian Author Gunther met was an interviewer who asked: "Do you think that intellectual fermentations, as represented by the left-wing element of the first phase of the first New Deal, are on the whole more beneficial to democracy than otherwise?" The last Colombian he met was an interviewer who asked...
...next summer he was back. At once he was arrested as a spy by Nazi-conscious Panama police. After eight days in a foul jail, he was freed and darted south into the brush. Three weeks later he emerged from the jungle at the Colombian border. Having done the impossible, he presented his notes and films to the Highway officers, returned to his classroom. As reward he asked nothing, and got it. Last week plans were going ahead for preliminary surveys of the Panama-Colombia link...
Last fall the State Department, finding Ecuador unwilling to follow Colombian example, replied to Sedta in kind. Dangling a reported $180,000-a-year post-office subsidy, it hooked reluctant Pan American-Grace Airways into setting up a rival service...