Word: pan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days when American commercial air policy was being set, President Truman had shown no particular interest in it. He had let the Civil Aeronautics Board plot the course and fly the plane. But last week, to the vast discomfiture of Pan American Airways, the President took over-plane, pilot...
...months CAB had been studying the application of eleven U.S. lines for Latin American routes. Finally it decided that four domestic lines should be given Caribbean routes to compete with Pan Am. But the board did not think Pan Am needed any U.S. flag competition on its lucrative Bermuda and South American runs. When CAB's recommendations went to the President he decided that, on the contrary, more competition was needed-and plenty of it. In jigtime he overruled CAB on four important routes. Moreover, he peremptorily told CAB just exactly which U.S. airlines should...
...next day, big as life, Kate Smith popped up in the Abner strip. Later she too sang Don't Marry That Girl. Bob Hope, Jack Smith and Fred Waring followed. Within a week, listeners were humming Tin Pan Alley's latest...
...afternoon tea at the restaurant where Tolly's trio-which specializes in light classics-will play Cruising only by request. The two chums have already written a new Skaters' Waltz, but, says Eily, "We'll never write another Cruising. It was just a flash in the pan...
...first nonverbal reaction was "civil disobedience." Arab workers in Palestine walked out in a twelve-hour general strike. Diehard pan-Arabs called for a jihad, or holy war, to wrest back Palestine from the infidel. In Jerusalem, the Arab temper flared most angrily. A mob surged from the Mosque of Omar, shouted "Death to the Americans and British!" and stoned a column of Tommies. They fell back before British batons and a sudden heavy rainstorm. Tanks rumbled up to the Damascus Gate. The 100,000 British troops in the Holy Land were alerted...