In South America

Up from the south came word, last week, of further solidification of Pan American Airways' position as leader of South American air transport routes. Its president, Juan Terry Trippe, announced a cooperative operating agreement with "Scadta" (Sociedad Colombo-Alemena de Transportes Aereos), an air transport system involving about 3,000 miles of routes in the Republic of Colombia. Joined into the links of P. A. A.'s vast chain of 13,000 miles (TIME, Feb. 17), the two systems present a formidable front to other air transport companies on the continent.

As though this were not enough to worry about, the newly inaugurated competitor of P. A. A., the New York, Rio & Buenos Aires east coast line had to deposit $100,000 in a Brazilian bank as security to release four of its planes for service. The planes were impounded because Companhia Empreza de Transortes Aereos, a Brazilian concern, claimed breach of some contract. In the teeth of these tribulations, however, the first air mail from the east coast of South America arrived in Manhattan last week triumphantly carried up by NYRBA.

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