Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After almost a month of operation, the Cuban refugee airlift is shaking down into a steady, efficient rescue of people fleeing Castro's Communist dictatorship. The flights are now up to two planes a day, five days a week, and the Pan American DC-7s bring their full load of 95 passengers. In the first 24 days of the lift, some 2,500 Cubans left their unhappy homeland. Less than half settled in the Miami area, which already has 100,000 Cuban refugees. The rest of the newcomers went to other cities throughout the country...
...muttering proudly backstage: "Say, that little tiger did all right." While the boys were hamming it up for TV, Mama Kathy Grant Crosby took Mary Frances, 6, up to the Hyatt Music Theater near San Francisco to make her debut as a bit-player in a musical Peter Pan but alas, Kathy got panned as Peter. The San Francisco Examiner's Critic Jeanne Miller took after poor Mary Frances as well, with the slightly weird complaint that she was "stodgy...
...round and take them along. But mostly the Yule flood is made up of "singles" and couples who look on home as only a place to sleep between working hours but not to spend holidays in. And they are packing the islands right up to the high-water mark. Pan American increased its seats to and from the Caribbean by 41% this year (to 26,000 a week), but so many people are there now that no seats are available coming back before Jan. 10. Late bookers found BOAC in the same merry fix. Puerto Rico had upwards...
...training programs. United Air Lines, the nation's largest line, is expanding its flight-training center in Denver at a cost of $25 million, has begun signing up trainees who lack a commercial pilot's license to meet its need for 800 new pilots a year. Pan American has dropped its insistence on a college degree. All four auto producers have set up training centers (General Motors has 30, Ford 56), summer seminars and mobile classrooms in an effort to solve a growing shortage of auto repairmen. In 1950 there was one repairman for every 70 cars...
...plans to win the business of U.S. firms on the Continent, and of European concerns as well, by providing rapid, door-to-door service within Europe and between the U.S. and Europe. To accomplish the latter, it has negotiated transatlantic cargo tie-ups with Seaboard World Airlines, Inc., Pan Am and McLean Industries, which operates a fleet of huge, specially designed piggyback freighters. DC began talking with dozens of potential American clients even before the West Friesland deal went through, got some swift results. "The European Du Pont operation had recently canceled its contract with West Friesland," says...