Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Juan Trippe's triumphal day was somewhat marred by the wreck of a Pan American-Grace Airways transport which occurred in the sea off Panama four days earlier, snuffing out 14 lives (TIME, Aug. 9). Pan American spokesmen hastened to point out that the wrecked plane was not one of the famed Clippers, which are flying boats, but an amphibian; and that Pan American and Pan American-Grace are separate airlines, although P.A.A.owns 50% of P.A.G. stock. P.A.A.'s safety record with its Clippers is almost perfect: only three deaths are charged against it. That accident occurred last...
...word for articles on technical subjects requiring considerable research. They handle about 20 jobs a week and expect to gross about $100,000 this year. Their largest fee so far was $1,900 for the annual report of a corporation. Smallest was from a man in Panama who sent in a check for $5 asking for a brief and suitable expression for his daughter's wedding breakfast...
Everything was nicely in hand, read the reports to the President. Thirty Panama troopers with machine guns were already guarding the treasure, half of which under Panama law belonged to the Government. Determined that there should be no hitch President Arosemena ordered his trusty chief of police, Colonel Manuel Pino, to take five planes and fly to David-nearest possible landing ground to the mine-to bring the bullion to Panama...
...June 7). Seven years later Roy Davis' Republican friends made him U. S. Minister to Guatemala, an event he celebrated by adopting spats, cane and black-ribboned pince-nez. High point of Roy Davis' diplomatic career was the revolution that overtook him as U. S. Minister to Panama in 1931. Because no U. S. soldiers were called from the Canal Zone during the fracas, Minister Davis was hailed by Panamanians of every stripe, including even profane and eccentric Editor Nelson Rounsevell of the Panama American. They named a lake in his honor. When Republican diplomats began trooping back...
...Berven finished his reading and called out: "Do I hear any bid for Parcel No. i. ... ?" He heard nothing. "Do I hear," asked Mr. Berven, dabbing his brow, "any bid for the properties of St. Mary's College in their entirety?" Two mustached men in panama hats edged up and one of them said: "Leland Groezinger and Gerald S. Levin, as joint tenants, bid $411,150." Cameras clicked as Mr. Levin handed Mr. Berven, as a down payment, a crumpled cashier's check for $43,000. Thus transferred lock, stock & barrel to the bidders' law firm...