Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Muddle No. 5: While Pan American Airways, which operates the Bermuda run jointly with Imperial, carries four rocket-equipped life rafts on its Bermuda Clipper (total raft capacity: 40 persons), the Cavalier had none. When she began to sink, her eight passengers, her five crew members had to take to the water, hanging to six or seven buoyant seat packs, which had not been issued until after the ship struck. One man passenger, unable to swim, was struck by wreckage as he left the ship, and drowned. A steward, held in the terrified ring where the survivors hung around their...
WASHINGTON-The United States today emerged victorious in an international race to establish trans-Atlantic plane service when Great Britain gave Pan-American Airways permission to inaugurate service in advance of British Imperial Airways...
...tell reporters whether the Cavalier's, engines had carburetor heaters. Little better off than newsmen was the U. S. Civil Aeronautics Authority, which didn't know either. Under a reciprocal agreement, Imperial's planes are checked for airworthiness by Britain's Air Ministry at Bermuda. Pan American Airways planes, which ply the same route, are checked by CAA inspectors at Port Washington...
...Pan-American Delegate...
...Professor Sauveur played an important part as United States delegate to the third Pan American Scientific Congress in Peru...