Word: pan-american
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...Sikorsky 543 transport of Pan-American-Grace Airways, carrying n passengers and crew of three from Santiago, Chile, radioed it was circling in a rainstorm over the field at Cristobal, C. Z., where it was scheduled to transfer its passengers to a northbound Pan-American Clipper. No more was heard from the Sikorsky. Next day its wreckage was found 20 mi. west of Cristobal, all on board presumably lost...
...President Roosevelt put his signature to eight treaties and conventions drafted at Buenos Aires last December and recently ratified by the Senate. The President's action thus solidified Pan-American good neighborliness, at least between the U. S., the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua, the only three nations which have so far ratified...
Died-Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Adams, explorer and lecturer, wife of Franklin Pierce Adams, onetime counselor of the Pan-American Union; in Nice, France. Mrs. Adams headed expeditions in Haiti, Africa, Siberia and Sumatra, made a threeyear, 40,000-mi. journey through South America starting in 1903. In 1916, she was the first woman War correspondent to visit the front-line trenches. In 1925, she organized the International Society of Woman Geographers...
...trophy planned as a memorial to Newell Bent, Jr. '33, who died in January 1936 in attempting to scale Acongagua, highest peak of the Andes, will be the prize when the first Pan-American downhill skiing championship is held in Chile this July...
...Hugh Gibson-Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). For the well-heeled tourist, from the Pan-American diplomat, a diplomatic prospectus on "the world's most beautiful harbor city." Illustrated...