Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past five months, two moves in the Good Neighbor (or Hemisphere Solidarity) policy of Franklin Roosevelt were to raise Colombia and Venezuela, the two countries on South America's northern corner, from ministerial to ambassadorial status in U. S. diplomatic ranking. Last week the State Department promoted Pan ama President Roosevelt named as U. S. Ambassador there his Minister to Uruguay...
...Boeing plant, some 50 miles to the north in Seattle, work was stopped on ten other Stratoliners, three of which have been ordered by Pan American airways. Perplexed, President C. L. Egtvedt of Boeing declared: "It was . . . one of the best we have built. I can't believe the fault lay in the ship itself." Quick to deny that this implied sabotage was Boeing. But the facts remained that the first Stratoliner, carefully built and tested on the ground, had flown about 23 hours in closely supervised engineering tests without sign of structural weakness, that into her building...
...policy now 115 years old, first expressed in the Monroe Doctrine: The Americas must belong only to North and South Americans. For most of the 115 years, U. S. policy has been confined mainly to the negative side of this doctrine, keeping foreign nations out. Recently Pan American conferences, the "Good Neighbor Policy," etc. have attempted to give it some positive substance. Last week in Washington a concrete step was taken to make this policy something more than a benign theory...
With new 41-ton Boeing 314s about ready to be put in service on the trans-Pacific run, Pan American Airways will need lots of passengers to fill the seats of these 74-passenger flying boats. Last week it set out to get them. Its action: fare cuts of 20 to 25%. Samples: San Francisco-Honolulu, cut from $360 to $278; San Francisco-Hong Kong...
...there has been considerable discussion about making America's armament supplies available for her poorly armed Southern neighbor. Secondly, the Brazilian Pact may set in motion a series of United States, Latin-American trade arrangements that will change the whole complexion of the South American situation. The closer the Pan-American ties become, the less the danger of European totalitarian philosophy, and the brighter the future of freedom and free trade, at least in the Western Hemisphere...