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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (2): 285–319.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Elizabeth S. Manley Abstract Launched in 1966, Jamaica's national airline, Air Jamaica, exclusively employed women flight attendants, dubbed “rare tropical birds,” to embody and sell its elevated hospitality. Using Air Jamaica and its flight attendants as a lens on tourism across the region...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (2): 312–313.
Published: 01 May 1967
... Colombiana really dates from September 1932 and the struggle over the Peruvian occupation of Leticia. At first the floatplanes of Scadta, the successful national airline, had to be drafted to provide communication and transportation to the remote southeastern corner of the republic. Soon, however, modern...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (4): 767–768.
Published: 01 November 1979
...” of the title refers to that over the Panama Canal, newly vulnerable to enemy planes. The bracketing dates are those of the incorporation, in 1919, of the German-controlled SCADTA airline (Sociedad Colombo-Alemana de Transportes Aéreos) in neighboring Colombia and the full implementation of the new plan...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (4): 663–665.
Published: 01 November 1968
..., are available in English. Commercial scheduled airlines, nationally or privately owned, passenger and cargo, were studied. No attention was paid to the role in several countries of military aviation in providing air service to regions unable to support a civil airline. International passenger service...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1985) 65 (3): 589.
Published: 01 August 1985
... of the German import-export houses, and by stopping in 1920 it misses the two crucial cases of successful German capital intervention in Bolivian activities, those of the Hochschild group in altiplano mining and the Lloyd group in the Bolivian airline industry. Within these acknowledged limitations, the author...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (1): 129–131.
Published: 01 February 1965
... by considerable development of railroads and roads and airlines as well as radio, television, and the telephone. Vast hydraulic undertakings such as the Papaloapán Project have been “quite successful” and have expanded into others. On the political scene, Dr. Cline finds technical national planning finally...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (1): 112–113.
Published: 01 February 1969
.... Peter Grace of Grace & Co., Charles Brinckerhoff of Anaconda, Juan Trippe of Pan American Airlines, and a representative of the Rockefeller interests sat on the Board of Directors.) While students of Latin American affairs might have welcomed still more candor, for example about the precise...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (4): 797–799.
Published: 01 November 1999
... American airlines during the 1920s and 1930s. Finally, Jochen Meissner concludes with perhaps the most significant essay in the volume: an examination of the significance of World War I in the history of German investments in Latin America. Meissner challenges the traditional view that the war led...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 377–378.
Published: 01 May 2010
...? These questions are about elision and distortion. In this book, the Caribbean appears and disappears. Island nations such as Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti, and colonies such as Trinidad and Jamaica surface and fade under the rubric Latin America. Maps from the 1930s and 1940s show airline routes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (3): 549–550.
Published: 01 August 1987
... of books based on those papers, such as Stetson Conn and Bryon Fairchild, The Framework of Hemisphere Defense (Washington, 1960). Indeed, his lack of reliance on existing works weakens his discussion of important questions such as the Volta Redonda steel project, arms supply, Axis airlines...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (4): 681–682.
Published: 01 November 2014
... hand. I know of several instances when he quietly paid for airline tickets so that students could attend international congresses; he didn't want any credit for his generosity — quite the contrary — he just thought that the conferences would be incomplete if the students didn't attend. He was also one...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (4): 748–750.
Published: 01 November 2010
... in the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976, which killed 73 people, today live in the United States; one, Orlando Bosch, was pardoned by George W. Bush, while the other awaits trial on minor immigration charges. Also deserving a place here are the “Cuban Five.” They infiltrated anti-Castro exile organizations...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (1): 190–191.
Published: 01 February 1993
... strike and attendant massacre in 1928. Randall discusses both questions, as well as less notable issues of the German-owned airline SCADTA and the Rockefeller-supported health missions. Not surprisingly, given changes in historical modes, Randall’s focus and style of discourse differ from those...
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Hispanic American Historical Review 11543327.
Published: 25 September 2024
... of history at the University of Wisconsin Madison, Mele´ndezBadillo writes that he migrated from Puerto Rico to the continental United States in 2013, nearly 60 years after his grandfather left during the 1950s, when airlines such as Pan Am and Eastern inaugurated nonstop service between San Juan and New...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (3): 461–489.
Published: 01 August 2021
... capabilities, however, went far beyond airminded propaganda: he also expended substantial resources to develop national aviation. Throughout the 1930s, his government extracted many concessions from foreign airlines wanting to operate in Brazil, forcing them to build much of the infrastructure needed along...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (1): 83–110.
Published: 01 February 1994
...), 258-63; Luis V. Sommi, El monopolio inglés del transporte en Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires: Editorial Argumentos, 1940). 3 The divestment of the state in the late 1980s began with the privatization of the former state-owned national airline company, Aerolíneas Argentinas, and the telephone...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (4): 785–806.
Published: 01 November 2006
.... The office played a considerable role in the elimination of aviation companies owned or operated by Axis nationals, and it helped to make provisions for the training of Latin American pilots, mechanics, and engineers to facilitate the operation of national commercial airlines. 18 At the same time...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (1): 26–54.
Published: 01 February 1972
... controlled the local airlines and were extremely influential in local trade and finance. Argentina, whose ties with Germany and Italy were also strong, maintained close relations with Bolivia, and the traditional military rivalries with such neighbors as Paraguay and Chile did not mar Bolivian-Argentine ties...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (1): 74–101.
Published: 01 February 1972
... also asserted control over banking, credit, insurance and transportation. In addition to purchasing some 18, 000 miles of British-owned railroads, approximately 70 per cent of Argentina’s track and rolling stock, it greatly expanded the Argentine merchant fleet and created a national airline. The state...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (3): 391–417.
Published: 01 August 1979
..., and airlines linking the colonies and the frontier to the populated areas would serve both military and commercial purposes. The army engineers were best qualified to provide necessary leadership and expertise, and army-trained “legions” would “forge nationhood” and eliminate regionalism. In this way the army...
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