Word: pan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others only to be told that none of the five airlines advertising direct routes to Europe via the Azores "takes passengers to this place . . ." Then he added: "On page 3 of the May 23 issue of TIME'S Latin American edition you ran a full-page ad of Pan American Airways, which said: THE BEST WAY IN THE WORLD TO TRAVEL ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. Should Pan American Airways correct this...
...this end Mr. Müller's problem was no problem at all. Pan American's New York City traffic manager said that his line was definitely booking passage out of New York to the airport at Santa Maria. He suggested an immediate round-trip booking for Mr. Müller's wife and child...
Bombs & Bombast. The campaign began just before the monsoon. Dhoti-clad Calcuttans left their steaming houses, clustered in the streets to drink lime squash, chew pan (made from the betel nut), and talk politics until tempers gave way and fists flew. Hoodlum gangs raced through the city, pasting posters, tearing down opposition signs, breaking up each other's soapbox meetings with shoes, brickbats, incendiary oil bombs, bursting bottles of nitric acid. A city ordinance banned loudspeakers, so electioneers shouted instead through megaphones, day & night...
...proud papa was Songsmith Frank Loesser, a Hollywood Tin Pan Alleyite whose specialty is producing catchy, shortlived jingles about leaky faucets (Bloop, Bleep) and slow boats to China. But Baby was not even written for public consumption. Loesser ran it off five years ago as a comedy number for himself and his wife, Lynn, to sing at parties. It was surefire when his songstress wife, with appropriate handwringing, began singing "I really can't stay . . . I've got to go 'way," and Loesser answered pleadingly, "But Baby, it's cold outside!" After that the pace picks...
...Carroll Cone, an assistant vice president of Pan American Airways. A dedicated Democrat from Arkansas, Cone corralled money even from Dixiecrat & Republican friends, kept up good relations for Pan Am on the Democratic side of the fence. Cone gave $3,000 himself, collected $300,000 and had a hand in bringing the trainmen's A. F. Whitney backing into the Truman roundhouse...