Word: pan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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French resistance to Pan-Arab Druse attacks while the French offensive in Palestine is being prepared, were again picturesquely envisioned by Correspondent George Seldes* (Time, Sept...
...flash of light like a little cry, while the sunbeam gravely lighted a ballet dancer. And always that strange sound accompanied the dance?a sound pleasant and terrifying, like the reverberation of an enormouse cello-string. But it was more, it was increditable, that sound. ... as if the god Pan were snoring...
Despatches from Syria spoke of preparations by General Sarrail (TIME, Aug. 17) to launch a great French offensive against the Druse tribes, which have been fighting valliantly to oust the French Mandate and set up a pan-Arab Government at Damascus...
...sending it East via the Panama Canal. Thus a price-cutting war has been precipitated all over the country. In such a contest, low cost marketers such as the long-established Standard Oil companies, enjoy a great advantage over high-cost marketers such as Sinclair, Pure Oil or Pan-American...
Standard Oil evidently prefers to train its executives rather than acquire them through mergers. Last spring, Standard of Indiana acquired the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Co. from Edward L. Doheny (TIME, Apr. 13). Potent in Pan-American was Herbert G. Wylie, long an able Doheny lieutenant. Shortly after the merger, Mr. Wylie found his occupation gone. Pan-American was now a subsidiary, and no longer an independent. Decisions were made by the Standard of Indiana heads, and the Presidency of "Pan Pete" became a sinecure job, without responsibilities or possibilities for individual initiative. This development little suited...