Word: pan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...companionate marriage." the thin-lipped Bishop finished his benison and then called for a hymn. Said he: "Let us sing 'Fight the Good Fight with All Thy Might.'" That hymn might have been his motto in his battles with advocates of easy divorce, isolationists, opponents of pan-Christian unity, proponents of a Presbyterian-Episcopalian merger...
...hemisphere's Mr. Big, the U.S. could take whatever line it pleased. But to go on doing so belied a Good Neighbor's concern for neighborly action. Some Latin American diplomats hinted that if the State Department did not change its tune, the "Pan-American system" would go on ice for six years (i.e., as long as Perón was President). The question was how badly the U.S. wants hemispheric unity. For hemispheric unity could not be had without including...
...temporary permit from Perón to fly into Argentina, six serviceable Lancastrians (carrying only 13 passengers on the long Atlantic hop), and a staff that was ex-R.A.F. But the only point-to-point competition for B.S.A.A.'s 55-hour, $705 service so far came from Pan American's $921 dogleg via New York...
B.S.A.A., with the old British fire in its pink Socialist eye, talked about 24-hour service from London to rival Pan American's projected one-day Constellation schedule from New York to Buenos Aires. Last week, B.S.A.A.'s glamor boy and general manager, Air Vice Marshal Donald Bennett, was reported souping up a Mosquito in London to show that it could be done...
...Paradise!" So Pan American World Airways burbled last week in ecstatic travel ads. Paradise, which Pan Am seemed to have confused with Hawaii, was still not a regularly scheduled stop on any airline. But by plane or boat, every country on earth was once more open to U.S. travelers, packing their bags for the biggest travel boom ever. Even Japanese ports were reopened. Fare by freighter...