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    "ocrText": "12\nSECRET\n1940 - 10,000 mi.\nArgentina\n1949 - 151,000 mi. Increase of 1,400%\n1940 - 65,000 mi.\nBrazil\n1949 - 590,000 mi. Increase of 800 %\n1940 - 11,000 mi.\nWorld\nVenezuela\n1949 - 209,000 mi. Increase of 1800%\n1940 - 75,000 mi.\nMexico\n1949 - 319,000 mi. Increase of 300%\n600\n1940 - 14,000 mi.\nL.A.\nCuba\n1949 - 93,000 mi. Inorease of 550%\n1,650,000\n20%\n1949 L.A. mileage compared\nPRINCIPAL INCREASE IN SCHEDULED\nto total U.S. and total world\nWEEKLY L.A. MILEAGE FROM '40-'49.\nscheduled mileage.\nORE Tr-250\n4-engine transports were added, thus bring-\nper week or more than five times that sched-\ning the total fleet operated by the area's\nuled in 1940. The principal increases in\nscheduled airlines to approximately 700.\nscheduled weekly mileage from 1940 to 1949\nAlthough US-manufactured aircraft\nwere made by the airlines of Argentina (an\namounted to 72 percent of the total owned by\nincrease of about 140,000 miles-1,400 per-\nLatin American scheduled airlines in 1940,\ncent), Brazil (about 460,000 miles-over 700\nonly 23 were as modern as the DC-3. In 1949,\npercent) and Venezuela (about 170,000 miles-\nsix hundred aircraft, or 88 percent of the total,\nover 1,500 percent). These countries have es-\nwere of US manufacture, and of these, 450\ntablished substantial intercontinental oper-\nwere of types at least as large and as modern\nations. Since 1940, the airlines of Mexico and\nas the DC-3. (Aircraft of UK manufacture\nCuba have also shown marked increases in\nin use in 1949 amounted to only 8 percent of\nscheduled operations, amounting per week to\nthe Latin American transport total.) The\nover 220,000 miles (300 percent) and over\nincrease in US equipment operated by Latin\n70,000 miles (500 percent), respectively. The\nAmerican airlines, moreover, would have been\ntotal scheduled mileage in early 1949 for all\neven greater had it not been for the severe\nLatin American airlines amounted to slightly\ndollar shortage which has recently prevailed\nless than 20 percent of the mileage flown by\nin most Latin American countries.\nall US scheduled domestic and international\nAlthough Latin American airlines operated\ncarriers and about 11 percent of the world\n18 percent of the world total of scheduled air-\ntotal (exclusive of the USSR) of scheduled\nline equipment in 1949 (excluding the USSR),\noperations.\ntheir share of 4-engine aircraft amounted to\nDespite pronounced postwar expansion of\nslightly less than 7 percent of the world total\noperations, Latin American airlines have been\nof this type.\nlimited by the general lack of public funds\nIncrease in Latin American Airline Opera-\nthroughout the area, and by the severe dollar\ntions. As a result of rapid postwar expansion,\nshortages which have affected most Latin\nLatin American scheduled airlines were oper-\nAmerican countries during the last two years.\nating in 1947 about four times more mileage\nGovernment plans for badly needed develop-\nthan in 1940. (See Table B.) By 1949, this\nment and improvement of airports, radio aids\nmileage had increased to over 15 million miles\nto navigation, and meteorological and com-\nSECRET"
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