Word: pan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...records, Spike took the City Slickers on a road tour. Recalls Spike: "We were too corny for sophisticated people, and too sophisticated for corny people." But by the end of the tour, collectors and radio disc-jockeys were calling for more. He set about deflating some of Tin Pan Alley's more pretentious tunes. The City Slickers played Chloe straight, with all the tom-toms and jungle mating cries that everybody else affects, then gave it the business ("Chloe - where are you, you old bat you?"). They caught the nagging, namby-pamby nonsense of Glow-Worm. Their Cocktails...
...international football game be tween Pan American Airways' free com petition and Great Britain's controlled competition, Pan Am had made a brisk first down. It had cut its New York to London fares from $572 to $275. Then Britain had Pan Am penalized: its flights were cut from five a week to two. Pan Am tried a ground gainer: it offered to raise its fares to $375, as suggested by Britain. But Britain called time out, and appealed to the umpire...
...Pan Am, said Britain, must accept the principle that the International Air Transport Association, recently formed by the airlines of some 24 nations, shall fix minimum international fares. Until Pan Am agrees to this principle, it can fly to London only twice a week, even at $375. Pan Am refused to agree to I.A.T.A.'s rule, planned a trick play...
...Pan Am announced that it will continue to carry passengers to Shannon, Eire, for $247. Passengers must find their own way from Shannon, near Dublin, to London (they could go by plane twice a week if they were lucky, or by taxi, bus, boat and train-a trip which sometimes takes two days). Twice a week, Pan Am will fly all the way to London but has not yet set the fare. Furthermore, said Pan Am, it will soon start flying to France at fares comparable to the $275 rate...
Almost unnoticed in the excitement was the tacit admission of American Overseas Airlines that Pan Am's rate-cutting might have been justified. American too cut its New York-London fare to $375. This, it admitted, was still too high. But, it said piously, it would ask I.A.T.A. for permission to reduce fares further, thus conforming to Britain's rules...