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810.79611 Pan American Airways, Inc./691

The Vice Consul at Port-of-Spain, Trinidad (Demorest) to the Secretary of State

[Extract]
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, October 10, 1929.
[Received October 22.]
No. 1986

Sir: I have the honor to state that the Pan-American Airways, Incorporated, inaugurated the United States Airmail Service to Trinidad and British and Dutch Guiana on Sunday, September 22, 1929.

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The Pan-American Airways, Incorporated, has now an established weekly service to Trinidad and British and Dutch Guiana, and back to Miami via the Northern Islands.

The Company is now operating on a six months’ special and temporary authorization, dated September 21, 1929, under articles 4, 5, and 27 (2) of the Air Navigation (Colonies, Protectorates and Mandated Territories Order, 1927). A copy of this authorization is attached.43

I understand that the Trinidad Post Office has so far cleared in profits on air mails over $1,500.

I have [etc.]

Alfredo L. Demorest
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