Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Please don't pan American," said Trippe Juanly...
...Interests of Justice. Bewildered by the legal proceedings against her, humiliated by the gibes of other park habitues, Mrs. Hanush sank into despair. On the day set for the trial, she put on her best clothes, left a pan of birdseed on her hotel windowsill, and took a bus to San Francisco. She registered at a hotel, and from there she wrote a letter to Lopez. "Thinking about that terrible trial," she wrote, "I could not go on any more. Please continue your noble work. You know as we all know that we are innocent in the whole incident." Then...
...intrusion and union demands more vigorously. "The heads of many airlines are living in the past," he says. "The airline industry is now a sophisticated business, but too many of the guys running airlines are the same ones who started the open-cockpit mail runs." He calmly took on Pan American President Juan Trippe, forcing him to return 390,000 shares that Pan Am had acquired in a swap during a 1958 merger maneuver that came to naught...
...chains are following Hilton abroad as fast as they can. The second biggest U.S. hotel chain after Hilton, Sheraton Corp., now has seven foreign hostelries; Hotel Corp. of America has five, and Knott Hotels three. But Hilton's biggest U.S. rival overseas is Intercontinental Hotels Corp., a Pan American World Airways subsidiary that has no hotels in the U.S. In the past six years, Intercontinental has added 13 hotels abroad, to bring its total to 19, expects to double that number within four years. Its hotels are generally smaller than Hilton's, however, and have yet to return...
...enable airlines to rid themselves of a variety of cut-rate plans that complicate ticket selling. Trippe would stamp out many of the scarcely profitable charter flights, on which 12% of all airborne U.S. tour ists will go to Europe this year for as low as $250 round trip. Pan Am's low fare would also eliminate the 25-person group flights ($310 round trip to London), as well as the 21-day excursion flights ($350 in the offseason) and the 5% discounts on all round trips...