Word: pan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pan, pan...
After school and college (St. Francis Xavier's, New York Law School) he began haunting Tin Pan Alley. He scribbled song lyrics for years. He was 28 years old before his Uncle James Roon marched him down to a Tammany boss, Charles W. ("Cash & Carry") Culkin, and got him elected to the State Assembly...
...hopes to be operating before March: Lima to Montreal via Panama City, Havana, and New York. This may prove potent competition for Panagra. And if P.I.A. ever makes the obvious extension to Buenos Aires, it will have a New York-to-Buenos Aires route 700 miles shorter than Pan-American Airways...
...airlines were having trouble all along the line last week. Pan American Airways Corp. was so hard hit by competition that it fired 20% of the employes in its Atlantic Division. Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., crippled by the recently settled pilots' strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), postponed all expansion plans, canceled orders for 25 planes. Pennsylvania-Central Airlines Corp. cut its staff some 15%, Western Air Lines, Inc. canceled half its orders for new planes, and Colonial Airlines, Inc. laid off employes. The reasons were plain: passenger travel had slumped, was not coming up to optimistic airline estimates...
...frying pan that never needs to be washed...